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Arts policy

August 2024

  • A woman looks at a street artwork featuring a red face by Philaicio at Yardworks, a festival in Glasgow.

    Scottish arts sector appeals to ministers over ‘devastating’ budget cuts

  • Martina Šimkovičová being sworn in as culture minister

    Slovakia purges heads of national theatre and gallery in ‘arts crackdown’

July 2024

  • View of the courtyard of Summerhall, formerly home to the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

    Edinburgh’s Summerhall arts venue saved after owners grant new lease

    Threatened closure prevented by three-year agreement that will allow time to ‘secure a much longer future’
  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

    • Britain needs a cultural reboot. Here’s my five-point plan to fix the arts

      Nicholas Serota

    • Era of culture wars is over, pledges new culture secretary Lisa Nandy

    • Nandy wasn’t supposed to head up culture, but could her level-headed approach be just the ticket?

      Charlotte Higgins

June 2024

  • Anna Wintour wearing a light pink feather shawl and large silver necklace on the stairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala with photographers behind her

    ‘Sport has infiltrated all of fashion’: Anna Wintour on Vogue World, sport and UK arts

  • Viv Groskop

    How do I live my best life? I’ll consult a painting, thanks – not my smug ‘AI future self’

    Viv Groskop

May 2024

  • Close up of Timothy Spall holding a Bafta award up to his face

    Next UK government must not treat arts as ‘bloodsucker’, says Timothy Spall

  • Elle Hunt

    A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

    Elle Hunt

March 2024

  • Nicholas Cullinan

    British Museum appoints new director after alleged thefts scandal

    Nicholas Cullinan, head of National Portrait Gallery, replaces Hartwig Fischer, who resigned over response to allegations
  • Clockwise from top left: Benedict Cumberbatch, Brian Cox, Stephen Fry, Mark Knopfler, Damien Lewis and Paul Smith, who are all Garrick Club members.

    Equality groups urge cultural elite to give up Garrick Club membership

    Campaigners call for ‘outdated structures’ that undermine progress and encourage inequality to be dismantled

    • The manifesto Britain needs
      Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule. Here are three ways Labour can fix it

      Charlotte Higgins

    • ‘I could have written three plays about her’: Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage

    • Creative industries get budget boost including £26m for National Theatre

February 2024

  • Sonia Sodha

    Meet the modern-day censors, wielding their purse-strings over artists and their work

    Sonia Sodha
  • Pauline Tambling

    Other lives
    Pauline Tambling obituary

January 2024

  • A scene from English National Opera’s production of Blue by Jeanine Tesori at London Coliseum in April 2023.

    English National Opera employees to strike over cuts

    Underfunding of Manchester move blamed as Musicians’ Union announces first full strike in 44 years

December 2023

  • A choir master and two rows of boys from King’s College Cambridge choir, all in robes, in front of tall lit candles

    Britain’s losing talent: US choirs poised to lead as school cuts hit supply of UK singers

    Top musician says Britain’s choral tradition threatened by classroom cutbacks and fewer public school pupils at Oxbridge
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