The BBC’s Acting Chair Elan Closs Stephens has said staff and the board at the UK network were “unnerved” by events of the past few months.
Cross’ predecessor, Richard Sharp, stood down after a report found he had breached appointment rules by failing to properly declare his role in securing former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson access to an £800,000 ($1M) loan.
A BBC probe cleared Sharp of any conflict of interest issues but noted he should have made “relevant declarations at the outset of his tenure” that he had attempted to introduce a Canadian businessman, Sam Blyth, to the UK’s Cabinet Secretary. Blyth went on help Johnson secure the loan.
“There’s no doubt that we’ve gone through a difficult period of time and I’m sure that staff and the Board and Richard himself were unnerved by what happened over the past few months,” said Closs...
Cross’ predecessor, Richard Sharp, stood down after a report found he had breached appointment rules by failing to properly declare his role in securing former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson access to an £800,000 ($1M) loan.
A BBC probe cleared Sharp of any conflict of interest issues but noted he should have made “relevant declarations at the outset of his tenure” that he had attempted to introduce a Canadian businessman, Sam Blyth, to the UK’s Cabinet Secretary. Blyth went on help Johnson secure the loan.
“There’s no doubt that we’ve gone through a difficult period of time and I’m sure that staff and the Board and Richard himself were unnerved by what happened over the past few months,” said Closs...
- 6/28/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Sharp’s resignation as BBC Chairman over a Boris Johnson loan scandal has stoked division at the British broadcaster as thoughts turn to finding his successor.
The former Goldman Sachs banker will step down at the end of June after he failed to properly declare his role in facilitating Johnson’s £800,000 ($1M) loan guarantee as ministers went about installing him on the BBC board.
Barrister Adam Heppinstall concluded Sharp’s actions gave rise to a “perceived conflict of interest,” though he stopped short of concluding that the BBC Chairman sort to curry favor by involving himself in the Prime Minister’s private financial affairs.
Sharp has dug in for months since the story was first reported by The Sunday Times and maintained today that his failure to be fully transparent about Johnson’s loan was “inadvertent and not material.”
BBC employees were angry about The Sunday Times story when it broke in January,...
The former Goldman Sachs banker will step down at the end of June after he failed to properly declare his role in facilitating Johnson’s £800,000 ($1M) loan guarantee as ministers went about installing him on the BBC board.
Barrister Adam Heppinstall concluded Sharp’s actions gave rise to a “perceived conflict of interest,” though he stopped short of concluding that the BBC Chairman sort to curry favor by involving himself in the Prime Minister’s private financial affairs.
Sharp has dug in for months since the story was first reported by The Sunday Times and maintained today that his failure to be fully transparent about Johnson’s loan was “inadvertent and not material.”
BBC employees were angry about The Sunday Times story when it broke in January,...
- 4/28/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: 7:18 Am: The UK Commissioner for Public Appointments is to review the process behind the appointment of BBC Chair Richard Sharp as the fallout from the Boris Johnson loan scandal continues to be felt.
In the past few minutes, UK Commissioner William Shawcross has confirmed that he will look into Sharp’s hire, which was rubberstamped more than two years ago by the government. Shawcross said the review will ensure the process to hire Sharp was “run in compliance” with government rules.
The influential Commissioner for Public Appointments is appointed by the King and has a primary role of independently making sure appointments abide by the UK’s Cabinet Office code.
Previous: BBC Chair Richard Sharp has asked the BBC Board to review conflicts of interest in the wake of the Boris Johnson loan scandal that broke over the weekend.
Sharp has been under pressure since a bombshell Sunday...
In the past few minutes, UK Commissioner William Shawcross has confirmed that he will look into Sharp’s hire, which was rubberstamped more than two years ago by the government. Shawcross said the review will ensure the process to hire Sharp was “run in compliance” with government rules.
The influential Commissioner for Public Appointments is appointed by the King and has a primary role of independently making sure appointments abide by the UK’s Cabinet Office code.
Previous: BBC Chair Richard Sharp has asked the BBC Board to review conflicts of interest in the wake of the Boris Johnson loan scandal that broke over the weekend.
Sharp has been under pressure since a bombshell Sunday...
- 1/23/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The U.K. government has implemented further emergency funding to tide over arts, cultural and historical organizations impacted by the rising wave of Covid-19 infections caused by the new Omicron variant.
£1.5 million ($2 million) support has also been announced for creative freelancers alongside a further £1.35 million ($1.8 million) contribution from the theatre sector.
The emergency Culture Recovery Fund fund has been doubled from £30 million ($40 million) to £60 million ($80 million) in order to help institutions that have been forced to shut due to Covid-related staff absences or are struggling to stay afloat as citizens retreat indoors.
Dozens of theater shows including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End production of “Cinderella” and “Cabaret,” starring Eddie Redmayne, have been forced to shut over the past few weeks as casts and crew tested positive for the virus.
The fund will provide vital emergency grants to support independent cinemas, regional theatres, local museums and heritage sites,
The application...
£1.5 million ($2 million) support has also been announced for creative freelancers alongside a further £1.35 million ($1.8 million) contribution from the theatre sector.
The emergency Culture Recovery Fund fund has been doubled from £30 million ($40 million) to £60 million ($80 million) in order to help institutions that have been forced to shut due to Covid-related staff absences or are struggling to stay afloat as citizens retreat indoors.
Dozens of theater shows including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End production of “Cinderella” and “Cabaret,” starring Eddie Redmayne, have been forced to shut over the past few weeks as casts and crew tested positive for the virus.
The fund will provide vital emergency grants to support independent cinemas, regional theatres, local museums and heritage sites,
The application...
- 12/23/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Hello and welcome back to our roundup of news from across the industry. From stage to screens big and small, we’ve got you covered. It’s everything you need to know and all you can’t afford to miss. Phyllida Lloyd demands equality on and off stage.Last week, theatre director Phyllida Lloyd called on the Arts Council to refuse funding unless companies commit to gender equality on and off stage. At the Women in the Creative Industries Awards, Lloyd used an acceptance speech to demand that Arts Council chair Nicholas Serota only fund companies that “truly reflect the world around them,” saying, “there must from now on be 50:50 employment of men and women on stage, off stage and in the boardroom”. Lloyd was awarded for her trilogy of all-female Shakespeare plays at the Donmar and celebrating for putting women’s stories centre stage across her film and theatre work.
- 3/13/2018
- backstage.com
Warner Bros, Aardman, Nfts among supporters.
The UK’s creative industries have launched a federation in a bid to strengthen the growing sector and improve access and diversity within sub-sectors.
More than 200 arts organisations and commercial creative companies have joined the federation including Warner Bros, Aardman, Tate, the British Library, Design Museum, English National Ballet, Penguin, Random House, Burberry, the Royal College of Music and the National Film and Television School.
The federation’s work is expected to focus on advocacy but it will also produce an annual report on the impact of public arts and creative industries at home and abroad.
In its first year the group aims to launch a digital research portal, hold a pre-election policy event, undertake a series of roadshows, and run a series of events and seminars.
In each of the nations and regions it will co-partner with organisations from the public arts, commercial creative companies and universities.
The federation...
The UK’s creative industries have launched a federation in a bid to strengthen the growing sector and improve access and diversity within sub-sectors.
More than 200 arts organisations and commercial creative companies have joined the federation including Warner Bros, Aardman, Tate, the British Library, Design Museum, English National Ballet, Penguin, Random House, Burberry, the Royal College of Music and the National Film and Television School.
The federation’s work is expected to focus on advocacy but it will also produce an annual report on the impact of public arts and creative industries at home and abroad.
In its first year the group aims to launch a digital research portal, hold a pre-election policy event, undertake a series of roadshows, and run a series of events and seminars.
In each of the nations and regions it will co-partner with organisations from the public arts, commercial creative companies and universities.
The federation...
- 11/21/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A writer and director for theatre and film, David Hare has twice been Oscar nominated for his adapted screenplays of The Hours and The Reader. He is an avid reader of Philip French's film criticism.
No film writer has ever enjoyed the influence of Pauline Kael at the New Yorker, and yet after a lifetime spent advancing the pleasures of fun over the pleasures of art, she famously repented. "When we championed trash culture, we had no idea it would become the only culture."
Coming so soon after the death of Roger Ebert, the retirement of Philip French inevitably feels like a changing of the guard. For years, the British Film Institute has been struggling to make sense of the fact that the historic cinema repertory, the kind of cinema that was available at the Academy in Oxford Street or at splendid pioneering film societies all over the country in the 1950s and 1960s,...
No film writer has ever enjoyed the influence of Pauline Kael at the New Yorker, and yet after a lifetime spent advancing the pleasures of fun over the pleasures of art, she famously repented. "When we championed trash culture, we had no idea it would become the only culture."
Coming so soon after the death of Roger Ebert, the retirement of Philip French inevitably feels like a changing of the guard. For years, the British Film Institute has been struggling to make sense of the fact that the historic cinema repertory, the kind of cinema that was available at the Academy in Oxford Street or at splendid pioneering film societies all over the country in the 1950s and 1960s,...
- 8/24/2013
- by David Hare
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- Director Danny Boyle has joined leading British arts figures urging a cash-strapped local authority not to sell off a valuable Henry Moore sculpture – arguing it should be erected in London's Olympic Park instead.
"Draped Seated Woman" is owned by London's Tower Hamlets Council and stood for years on a public housing complex in the city's East End.
Last month the council announced plans to sell the bronze artwork to offset funding cuts. Estimates of its value range from 5 million pounds to 20 million pounds ($8 million to $32 million).
Tower Hamlets Mayor Luthur Rahman said the local authority faced a "stark choice" at a time of economic weakness and government austerity.
Moore, who died in 1986, is one of Britain's best-known 20th-century artists, and his curved, semi-abstract forms stand in public spaces around the world.
He sold "Draped Seated Woman" to the now-defunct London County Council in 1960 for a token price so...
"Draped Seated Woman" is owned by London's Tower Hamlets Council and stood for years on a public housing complex in the city's East End.
Last month the council announced plans to sell the bronze artwork to offset funding cuts. Estimates of its value range from 5 million pounds to 20 million pounds ($8 million to $32 million).
Tower Hamlets Mayor Luthur Rahman said the local authority faced a "stark choice" at a time of economic weakness and government austerity.
Moore, who died in 1986, is one of Britain's best-known 20th-century artists, and his curved, semi-abstract forms stand in public spaces around the world.
He sold "Draped Seated Woman" to the now-defunct London County Council in 1960 for a token price so...
- 11/5/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
London -- Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and jailed Russian punks Pussy Riot are among artists, curators and collectors on a list of the 100 most influential figures in the art world.
Top spot on Art Review magazine's annual Power 100 list is taken by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who runs the Documenta 13 art fair in Kassel, Germany.
Other entrants include gallery owners Larry Gagosian, Iwan Wirth and Jay Jopling and Tate director Nicholas Serota.
Ai is the highest-rated artist, at No. 3, ahead of figures including Gerhard Richter and Damien Hirst.
Pussy Riot, in 57th spot, is a new entry on the list, compiled by an international jury and released Thursday.
Two of the all-female group's members are in prison for staging an anti-government performance in a Moscow cathedral.
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Top spot on Art Review magazine's annual Power 100 list is taken by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who runs the Documenta 13 art fair in Kassel, Germany.
Other entrants include gallery owners Larry Gagosian, Iwan Wirth and Jay Jopling and Tate director Nicholas Serota.
Ai is the highest-rated artist, at No. 3, ahead of figures including Gerhard Richter and Damien Hirst.
Pussy Riot, in 57th spot, is a new entry on the list, compiled by an international jury and released Thursday.
Two of the all-female group's members are in prison for staging an anti-government performance in a Moscow cathedral.
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- 10/18/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Yoshihiko Ueda Max Gordon
No trim. No unnecessary details. No architectural frills. That’s the job of the art hanging on the walls.
As the guiding principals of British-born Max Gordon, a contemporary architect who designed the first Saatchi Gallery and constructed apartments for Richard Serra and Elizabeth Murray, he adhered to a notion of simplicity.
With an unrelenting focus on functionality Gordon established his own practice, Max Gordon Associates, in 1981 after being a partner at several architectural firms doing professional work.
No trim. No unnecessary details. No architectural frills. That’s the job of the art hanging on the walls.
As the guiding principals of British-born Max Gordon, a contemporary architect who designed the first Saatchi Gallery and constructed apartments for Richard Serra and Elizabeth Murray, he adhered to a notion of simplicity.
With an unrelenting focus on functionality Gordon established his own practice, Max Gordon Associates, in 1981 after being a partner at several architectural firms doing professional work.
- 5/2/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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