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Arts Council England has embarked on an extensive exercise to consult stakeholders including artists on their policies and priorities for the future.

More than a third of UK marketing, PR and publishing professionals admit to using images illegally from the Internet.

News from a-n’s archive.

This month’s Bites.

A new paper from MMM (Mission Models Money) written by Hasan Bakhshi, Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman, provides a radical new roadmap for research and development (R&D) within cultural organisations.

Southampton City Art Gallery’s collection, which includes work by Turner and Monet and an impressive line-up of twentieth century British artists such as Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Chris Offili and Gillian Wearing, is under threat from the city council proposal to sell parts of it off to fund a new heritage centre.

The issue of free labour in the arts received much-needed publicity in November, when a Reading Employment Tribunal ruled expenses-only pay was illegal.

If you’re a maker with a portfolio practice, applying your craft skills and knowledge in different roles, projects and settings who’d willing to see your work profiled in a major national research project that aims to influence future support for craft, then the Crafts Council wants to hear from you.

South West-based skills and enterprise development agency ArtsMatrix closed suddenly on 3 December.

February’s movers in the art world.

It’s just over a year ago now that a letter was signed by over 440 arts practitioners from all over Scotland, voicing concerns at the proposed creation of Creative Scotland, an amalgamation of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, with an expanded remit covering the creative industries and other commercial activity that would previously have been covered by Scottish Enterprise.

As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Unlimited programme is designed to celebrate disability, arts, culture and sport “on an unprecedented scale”.

One in six town centre properties will be empty by January 2010.