Culture Stuff
Arts & Culture
Arts Council England chair Sir Nicholas Serota talks to The Times about how the arts cannot take more austerity.
Creative UK has launched the UK’s largest freelance survey to improve working conditions and drive industry change - and their annual report for 21/22.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced the 10 artists and composers receiving £60,000 each as part of Awards for Artists 2022.
Roundhouse Works, the major new £7.5m creative hub for young people at London’s Roundhouse, is set to open in the spring.
Arts Council England has picked consultancy firm PwC over former supplier The Audience Agency for its data insights work moving forward.
Backers of Battersea Arts Centre and Spread The Word are among the winners of this year’s Achates Philanthropy Prize.
The art collection of late tech billionaire Paul Allen has sold for a record $1.5bn at auction at Christie’s, including a Cezanne for $138m.
Design
Peter Barber has won this year’s Soane Medal for his extraordinary social housing work. The Guardian on how he’s got mews for you (wish I’d thought of that one).
Next has bought Made.com for just £3.4m.
iPhone design guru Sir Jony Ive talks to the Wall Street Journal about life after Apple.
The Royal College of Art has launched a Virgil Abloh scholarship for designers from underrepresented communities.
Theatre & Dance
Almost half of buyers of lower-priced tickets expect to stop going to the theatre due to the cost of living crisis.
Garlic bread vendors of east London, listen up. Peter Kay is to perform a show a month for a year at the O2 - the venue’s first-ever residency.
Classical Music & Opera
The English National Opera is pushing back on plans to force them to move to Manchester and have secured a meeting with the Culture Secretary.
Tourism & Heritage
The “most significant bronzes ever produced in the history of the ancient Mediterranean” (dramatic) have been found immersed in a Tuscan spa. Just let them bathe.
Museums
There’s a new online database listing looted art from the Kingdom of Benin featuring over 5,000 objects housed by more than 100 museums worldwide.
Press, Books & Libraries
A duo has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for the first time and the book only took them a decade to write.
Interesting from Press Gazette on the future of tabloids in the digital era.
The BBC looks at the crisis of online abuse of female journalists worldwide.
Exhibitions and Events
The UK is to get its first major exhibition of Donatello next year at the V&A. Wonder which Ninja Turtle will be next.
Arvo Pärt, the second most-played living composer after John Williams, is being celebrated across Oxford between 18th and 25th October.
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