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Brand specialist, Kantar, has ranked a key group of health and fitness operators by consumer awareness scores to find a winner in a prompted recall ... More

People can feel real, powerful benefits from having a gym or health club membership even if they never step inside the facility they are members ... More

Kickboxing-inspired brand 9Round has extended its international reach with a Master Franchise Agreement for South India, which covers around 20 per cent of India’s area ... More

Smithsonian Open Access, an initiative to provide copyright-free access to millions of digital collection images and data, has been launched, with anyone now able to ... More

US fitness brand Peloton has pulled a wide range of its popular workouts after a lawsuit was filed alleging that many of its classes feature ... More

The UK’s Museums Association (MA) has urged politicians to take “all necessary action” to avoid the UK leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement. ... More

Arts Council England (ACE) has published a new guide to help arts and cultural organisations to prepare for a "no deal" Brexit. The guide contains ... More

Functional training equipment developer Fitness Anywhere LLC, known as TRX, has been awarded more than US$6.8million (£5.5m, €6.4m) in damages from online company WOSS Enterprises ... More

MuseumNext is heading down under as the global conference series on the future of museums gears up for its debut in Melbourne, Australia. Produced in ... More

UK gym operators will be able to save thousands of pounds in the face of new legislation around the use of video content on commercial ... More

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has adopted a new digital policy – making all images of public-domain artworks in the New York institution’s collection available ... More

Facebook has been ordered to pay compensation costs of US$500m (€462.7m, £394m) after a US court ruled that the company’s Oculus Rift virtual reality headset ... More

The body in charge of organising Tokyo’s Olympic Games has admitted its decision to cancel Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) National Olympic Stadium design in favour ... More

Kengo Kuma has won the first prize in an architecture design competition to create a new fairytale-themed home for the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in ... More

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma will design his first building in Australia; a landmark civic hub in the heart of Sydney. Named the Darling Exchange, the ... More

The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that Warner Bros illegally pirated music at its theme park near Madrid, failing to compensate artists and producers for ... More

Disney is the recipient of a second IP infringement suit as a result of the technology used in its very successful MyMagic+ magic band system, ... More

The architect developing Japan’s National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has publicly refuted claims his studio have copied from an earlier design submitted ... More

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) have claimed the Japan Sports Council are withholding payment for the studio’s design for the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo unless ... More

Swedish music icon Björn Ulvaeus revealed details of his upcoming project, Mamma Mia The Party, as he gave the keynote speech at the Euro Attractions ... More

Plans for a theme park in Torre de Benagalbón, Spain, have come under fire after comparisons were made of its similarity to JRR Tolkien’s Lord ... More

Cultural institutions in the UK are being forced not to exhibit certain historical works on the basis that copyright law is preventing their display. Display ... More

A Wikipedia-esque crowd-sourcing project has been used by the British Museum to transcribe a handwritten catalogue dating back to the 18th century – comprising 30,000 ... More

Aquaterra is delighted to announce that it has joined forces with England Basketball to host new and exciting recreational basketball opportunities for Londoners at the ... More

Image: Artist's impression of the Members Lounge Tate has announced it has reached the £45m fundraising target for the Tate Britain Millbank Project, which is ... More