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

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

The visual history of protest – and promotion – would be nothing without ink and paper, writes Patrick Burgoyne

Once the subject of tabloid moral panics, dance music’s early days are now being celebrated in books and galleries. What can 21st-century Britain learn from the ‘second summer of love’?