Culture Secretary Sajid Javid announced today, while visiting the Canal & River Trust’s Gloucester Waterways Museum that 25 museums across the length and breadth of England will benefit from grants worth £3 million. Only five of these institutions are Art Museums...
Latest statistics for Government-sponsored museums published last week reveal 49 million visits were made to the 16 museums and galleries directly funded by the DCMS last year, a four per cent increase on 2012/13 (47 million) and a record high since the first data was...
The Creative Industries Federation today welcomed the Warwick Commission’s report as an important step in uniting the UK’s arts, creative industries and cultural education.Federation Founder and Chair Sir John Sorrell said: "It is time, indeed it is long...
A cast bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, removed from the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton last June is creating controversy. The work of art has been located in the centre since it opened in 1968. It is one of six castings of this important 1964 work of...
The DCMS have announced figures for the number of visits by overseas tourists to the UK, with an all time high recorded for the six months to June. Figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed there were 16.4 million inbound visits to Britain from January...
The largest bottle ever produced of English sparkling wine by the award winning Kent-based winery Chapel Down, has been signed by four leading contemporary British artists and will be sold at Christie’s ‘Out of the Ordinary’ auction on 3 September...
Prime minister David Cameron has wasted no time in announcing the appointment of Sajid Javid MP as Culture Secretary. He is to replace Maria Miller effective immediately, following her resignation this morning, after a long and drawn out expense scandal.Javid is the...
Figures released in an annual survey have placed the British Museum as the second most popular gallery in the world. The Louvre has again topped the roll of the best-attended art museums. The French institution had 500,000 fewer visitors last year but still...
This week official statistics were published by the DCMS revealing that the UK’s creative industries are now worth £71.4 billion per year to the UK economy. This was a growth of almost 10% in 2012, outperforming all other sectors of UK industry and...