Culture Stuff
Arts & Culture
A pilot of Arts Council England’s proposed access card for disabled audiences has been pushed back two years to 2024.
BECTU has pushed back on Rishi Sunak’s education reform proposals, saying that they ‘completely sideline the arts’.
The Scottish government has given a £2.1m boost to the various Edinburgh festivals.
The Art Newspaper digs into how influencers are influencing the antique market and what ‘carbon offsetting’ actually means for the art world’s environmental impact.
Design
The longlist for this year’s Dezeen Awards has been unveiled. Only 290 entries to look through.
Goodyear is designing airless tyres for future lunar missions. Useful if a male astronaut is driving a buggy up there and eclipse a sharp rock.
Theatre & Dance
Equity has launched a Comedian’s Charter to support transparent pay for comedians and called for a boycott of venues that don’t provide good working standards.
The Beeb goes on the hunt for the next big thing at Edinburgh Fringe, after West End hit Six started life on a tiny stage at the festival.
Dancing Times, first published in 1894, is to cease print publication.
The UK’s only exclusively LGBT+ theatre is looking for a new home.
Classical Music & Opera
Ahead of the first Prom dedicated to brass band music for 33 years, The Guardian ponders whether it can blow past the cliches.
Tourism & Heritage
The Heritage Fund is reviewing which projects receive National Lottery funding with a greater focus expected on areas with greater need for support.
I’d Pompeii a fair amount for one of these: Archaeologists have dug up pristine glass bowls buried in the ash of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.
On that note… ARTNews digs into the world’s 24 most important archaeological sites.
Museums
The Brunel Museum has announced a new programme to support young women in engineering.
The teeny, tiny manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was a teenager is to be displayed at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Press, Books & Libraries
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has doubled its profits on the back of digital ads and subscribers.
Digital media company Axios, who do more popular newsletters than us, has been bought by Cox Enterprises for $525m.
Buzzfeed chats to the local Florida reporter who spectacularly beat the mainstream outlets to the Mar-A-Lago FBI raid scoop.
Our man Stormzy has launched the third year of his #Merky Books writing prize for unpublished and underrepresented authors.
Not a ‘new story’ but I thought it was interesting and I make the rules. The New Yorker on the surprisingly big business of library e-books.
Exhibitions and Events
London Design Festival has unveiled its 2022 programme hitting the streets of the capital in September.
Coming up on 13th October, Julie’s Bicycle is hosting We Make Tomorrow, a day for creativity, community and connection related to the arts’ climate crisis response.
Marina Hyde, Jeremy Vine and Kit de Waal will be showing their faces at Durham Book Festival in October.
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