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£21m arts development moves forward with final legal agreements now in place By Pete Hayman
Plans for the development of a new £21m arts complex in the heart of Southampton have progressed after the local authority confirmed that the final agreements were in place. Southampton City Council
(SCC) has agreed legal terms with Arts Council England and its development partner – Gros- venor Developments – to allow the scheme to move forward. Detailed plans for the
CZWG-designed venue are now to be drawn up with a view to being submitted in spring 2011. It is anticipated that work will begin in 2012 before the 'shell' is handed over to SCC in 2013. The venue – spread across two "iconic" buildings" – will
IN BRIEF
New public gallery for Serpentine Gallery As part of an initiative to
The proposed venue will form the heart of a new Cultural Quarter
boast 75,000sq ft (6,968sq m) of performing arts, gallery and film/media studio space. Arts Council England is
investing £7.2m in the scheme, which is to be developed on the former Tyrrell and Green building site and will feature at
the heart of a Cultural Quarter scheme. John Hansard Gallery; University of Southampton; and City Eye have already been confirmed as operators, while.a performing arts operator is to be sought subject to the completion of a SCC review.
By Pete Hayman
Lloyd Webber set to offload four London theatres roceeds from the sale are to
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group (RUG) has said that it is to sell four of its seven London theatres to GradeLinnit. It is expected that the sale of
the venues – Her Majesty's, the Cambridge, the Palace and the New London – is set to be completed in January 2011. Although GradeLinnit will
acquire 4,900 seats from RUG, Lloyd Webber is to retain the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and
go towards the development of RUG's remaining venues, plus reducing the group's debt. Lloyd Webber said: "It has
Her Majesty's Theatre is one of RUG's venues to be sold
the Palladium, as well as a 50 per cent stake in the Adelphi.
been a totally gut wrenching decision for me to decide to sell the four theatres. However following my illness last year I was advised to reduce the debt in the family company. "I have agreed that the
purchase price be reduced by £5m to enable GradeLinnit to invest this sum in the theatres."
Renovation for Aberdeen's historic Tivoli theatre
A historic theatre in Aberdeen is to undergo repairs and the reinstatement of architectural features to its exterior after being awarded funding for the work. The Tivoli Theatre Management Company
(TTMC) will net more than £500,000 as part of the Green Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI).
© Cybertrek 2010 First opened in 1872, the Grade A-listed
venue's roof, masonry and windows are to be repaired, while a number of the building's architectural detail will be reinstated The Tivoli was acquired last year by TTMC
chair Brian Hendry, who pledged to bring the venue back into public use.
make better use of its buildings, The Royal Parks has awarded a contract to the Serpentine Gallery to establish a new gallery in The Magazine building in Kensington Gardens, London. The Grade II-listed building is situated on West Carriage Drive, on the north side of the Serpentine Bridge. The project, to be known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, has been made possible by The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, which has given the largest single gift the Serpentine Gallery has received in its history.
Bank of Ireland to donate artwork Irish culture minister Mary Hanafin has welcomed a decision by the Bank of Ireland to donate 12 'important' artworks to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). The pieces – by nine artists – have now been withdrawn from a forthcoming auction and will now form part of IMMA's public collection in Kilmainham, Dublin.
New art exhibition for London's Thames A section of London's River
Thames is playing host to a number of contemporary art works until 8 January as part of the DRIFT 10 event. The bi-annual art exhibition first took place in 2008 and includes installations placed on the water in both Central London and in the Docklands. Illuminate Productions is behind the DRIFT 10 exhibition, which features bit. fall – waterfalls placed at the Bankside riverside walkway near Tate Modern and Canary Wharf. Meanwhile, origami paper boats – assembled with help from members of the public – will take to the water at two sites.
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