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How we brought the hunt for Higgs boson to life

How do you solve a problem like bringing CERN's Large Hadron Collider to London's Science Museum? You curate it, writes Alison Boyle
- A happy marriage of arts and heritage ambition
Arts head

'The gallery show is where the risks are taken'

Gallerists Jeremy Epstein and Charlie Fellowes on new generation dealers and buyers, and why the gallery – not art fairs or Amazon – is most open to risk
- Selling art: 17 top tips from the experts

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Maria Miller can drop her hammer – let's build a world we want to live in

Art transforms those cities whose authorities can imagine and invest in life beyond toil, trade and traffic, says Helen Marriage
How we made the web app, Who do you think you were?

With a supportive client and a bit of discipline, HTML5 web apps can punch above their weight, writes Ben Templeton
Could technology level out the UK's wonky arts funding landscape?

Given the right platforms, says Paul Cutts, arts organisations outside the capital can raise as much as those in London
The London bias of arts funding, again

As a new report on arts funding reveals the same status quo, Sheila McGregor calls for a proper redistribution of subsidy
Is 'creativity' arts policy's big mistake?

Creative workers are seen as paid hobbyists rather than as professionals with valuable labour power, says Dave O'Brien
Arts head: Henry Little, chief executive, Orchestras Live

The music charity chief on the myth that teens and orchestras don't mix and making music with, rather than for, young people
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Should the BBC and Arts Council England relaunch the Space? – poll

Interviews

Arts head: Michael Walling, founder, Border Crossings

The intercultural theatre director on translation, censorship and plays seen as tragedy in one country and comedy in another
Arts head: Jessica Hepburn, executive director, Lyric Hammersmith

The venue's joint chief on Secret Theatre, Walking Wednesdays and managing a multimillion pound development project
Arts head: Claire Simpson, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

The general manager of Belgrade's community and education work on creative resilience and the infectious nature of ambition
Arts head: Jane Furze, Cheltenham Literature Festival

The director talks about putting rock stars on stage and why good fundraising is about strong and sustainable partnerships
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Careers advice

Gay theatre: coming out or going back?

Gay writing is at a crossroads, says Thomas Hescott – we've yet to produce a voice to match those who came before
Failure: what's it good for in arts and higher education?

Failure is a fact of life for artists and researchers, says Sally Taylor – must arts graduates learn to live with it too?
What do artists get out of arts festivals?

If festivals are the new platform, and sites the new venues, what do they offer artists and audiences? Dominic Thomas reports back from a recent symposium
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The Hospital Club 100

The h.club 100: find out more

Meet the shortlisted creative professionals across nine categories in this year's Hospital Club 100 – but who should make the final list?

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Culture careers: share your tips

We're on a quest to create the definite careers guide for arts and culture professionals, but we need your help

Read of the day

Stubbs works saved: animal paintings inspired by Cook's voyage to stay in UK

National Maritime Museum raises £4.5m for George Stubbs's 18th-century paintings of Australian kangaroo and dingo

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Arts policy

Public arts spending in London 15 times greater than outside capital, says report

Authors say excessive dominance is unhealthy and recommends reallocating lottery money to rebalance investment in England
Frances Medley obituary

Other lives: High-flying arts administrator whose career was cut short by multiple sclerosis
What would Paul Robeson make of contemporary theatre?

Culture may be caught in a vicious cycle of cuts, but all is not lost if we look to this black actor's legacy, says Tayo Aluko

Digital arts and culture

A new cultural policy conversation: now is the time to ask how and why

Rohan Gunatillake calls on the arts sector to shift its funding focus from projects and products to the how and why of process
How we made the Artsy iPhone app

Designed specifically for Apple's new iOS 7 operating system, Artsy is about making all the world's art accessible
Virtual theatre rehearsal: when Skype saved the day (and play)

After Clout Theatre lost their director to visa issues, the company turned an unlikely situation to their creative advantage
People power in the arts: ending our obsession with tech and products

In our second Sync essay, Suzy Glass says we need to develop people-centred policy to make mind-blowing digital work
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