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Terry Grimley

Terry Grimley

Colourful and startling exceptions to the rule

Terry Grimley is impressed by Australian artist Tim Maguire's ambitious printmaking at Ikon Gallery. Read

The battle to get information out of the Arts Council

An internal Arts Council email, seen by The Birmingham Post, shows its officers discussed how best to withhold figures relating to a threatened arts organisation. Read

Portraying New Street in black and white

Terry Grimley reveals how a photograph of New Street Station is receiving international attention. ..TEXT ------- Read

Uncovering some very serious collectors

Terry Grimley enjoys a peep through the keyhole at some of Birmingham's private art collections. Read

Fiddle over orchestra's grant

The Arts Council has cited an "Orchestral Strategy" which does not formally exist as justification for withdrawing its funding to a West Midlands chamber orchestra. Read

Armonico's brave step into opera

Michael McCaffrey has directed numerous productions of The Marriage of Figaro, but his latest is the first on which he has worked with a choir rather than an opera company. Read

Birmingham opera boss blasts funding cut

Graham Vick, founder and artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company, is furious at the Arts Council's plans to stop funding the company. Read

Summer opera faces cancellation

Plans to stage Mozart's Idomeneo this summer are hanging in the balance following the Arts Council's decision to withdraw its revenue funding from Birmingham Opera Company. Read

Birmingham's remarkable private art collections

Somehow we tend not to think of Birmingham as a city of art collectors, so an exhibition opening at the Barber Institute later this month is likely to prove a revelation. Read

Mixed blessings for a slave of the theatre

Did you hear the one about the critic in 2007 who dreamed he was reviewing a show about the abolition of slavery? He woke up and found he was. Read

Money in the bank and a bright future for the Hippodrome

These are heady times at the Birmingham Hippodrome, where the box office has been buzzing this year. Read

Festival will get Birmingham dancing

Birmingham is bidding to establish itself as a world centre for dance by launching a new international festival next year. Read

Hidden Treasure in the Caribbean

Terry Grimley enjoys the frog chorus in Barbados and finds plenty of attractions, despite going out of season. Read

Statistics tell a story of success

The Royal Shakespeare Company has drawn a line under its highly successful Complete Works year with a wealth of impressive statistics. Read

A tidal wave of inspiration

To born-and-bred landlubbers such as myself, estuaries can seem alien and slightly alarming places. Read

£1m funding boost for Midland art

Birmingham and Walsall have won £1 million to spend jointly on contemporary international art over the next five years as part of a competition run by a national charity. Read

Donation boost for Mac

Plans for the £13.5 million redevelopment of the Midlands Arts Centre (Mac) in Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park have come a step closer with a pledge of £800,000 from the Charles Henry Foyle Trust. Read

City's tribute to surrealist Maddox

Birmingham has acquired a permanent commemoration of one of its unlikeliest art movements with the unveiling of a plaque to the surrealist painter Conroy Maddox. Read

Andris takes the CBSO helm

Terry Grimley talks to 28-year-old Andris Nelsons, the new music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Read

Sakari's final season starts with a big Finnish

It's half a century to the day that Jean Sibelius, Finland's greatest composer, and a towering national figure, died. Read

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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