The Latest Breaking News from Arts Council England

Arts Council England previously announced plans to remove the English National Opera because it is a national portfolio organisation.

We’ve faced criticism for investing in areas outside London, but people around England told us they wanted to experience culture close to home, says Arts Council England chair Nicholas Serota

The Lindisfarne Gospels, the most spectacular surviving manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England, were written on Holy Island, Northumberland, in the early 8th century

Letter: Great art and photography don’t magically appear ‘gallery ready’ for exhibitions, says Susan Jones

Bristol City Council is exploring its future with Bristol Beacon ahead of the reopening

The ENO will be able to keep its London Coliseum base while moving headquarters as part of the Government’s levelling-up agenda

Somebody, somewhere, must want an opera company, right? That seems to be the thinking behind the latest agreement struck between ENO (fighting to stay alive) and Arts Council England (fighting to save face).

It comes after the ACE announced plans in November to remove the opera company as a national portfolio organisation.

There are fundamental shortcomings in how “diversity” is conceived and practised in cultural institutions. The problem may be that the term itself undermines the complexities of the different and intersecting inequalities. That was the key finding of my latest research which also found that, in the context of race and…