The Latest Breaking News from Arts Council England

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…