arts industry

Put your daughter down a mine, Mrs Worthington, say new earnings stats

Friday, 20 January 2012

Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington, put her down a mine. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics for weekly earnings to 2011 paint a stark earnings picture for those working in the arts and entertainment industry....

New Year Honours: Sir Tony Pappano, Helena Bonham Carter CBE - and Sir Big Brother

Saturday, 31 December 2011

Commercial TV's most influential and controversial figure Peter Bazalgette, mastermind of TV's Big Brother, Ground Force, Deal or No Deal and Ready, Steady, Cook!, is one of four arts knights announced in the New Year Honours. Bazalgette...

The Story of Film: An Odyssey, More 4

Saturday, 10 September 2011

After the first two parts of Mark Cousins’s magisterial The Story of Film: An Odyssey, I’m still in two minds as to whether it’s fair to call the presenter a generalist. He has already managed to piece together details from the cinema cultures of...

Subject: Re: Arts Cuts (Reply All)

Friday, 22 October 2010

It began with a review of 100 Years of German Song. Roused by a comment to a reader (see Igor's comment below), Fisun was moved to email Igor in support of his trenchant views on arts funding. It wasn't long before other writers at theartsdesk got...

Watch this space: Arts funding cuts emerge

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Frontline public funding for arts will be cut by some 15 per cent over the next four years, said the Chancellor George Osborne today, as he announced a cut of almost half in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport budget, from £1.9 billion to £1....

Call You And Yours: Are arts nice-to-have or must-have?

Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey joined BBC Radio 4 Call You and Yours to debate public arts funding, joining a panel and answering phonecalls and emails from the public. The government will be incorporating some of the public comments into its current...