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Arts

June 2024

  • ‘The worst of many painful moments’ … then culture secretary Nadine Dorries in 2022, the year of her ‘letter of instruction’.

    ‘Culture embarrasses them’: how 14 years of Tory fiascos strangled arts in the UK

    They came to power promising ‘a golden age for the arts’. Now, 12 disastrous culture secretaries later, they leave it in tatters. What a stunning missed opportunity to capitalise on an asset that was the envy of the world

May 2024

  • Author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the ‘amputation’ of the Black British literature master's course at Goldsmiths University.

    UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

    Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history

April 2024

  • Education Secretary Gillian Keegan outside 10 Downing Street

    Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

    Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education

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

  • People viewing art in the Louvre, Paris

    The arts are heading into a doom loop

October 2023

  • Group of schoolchildren visiting an art gallery in London

    Why investing in arts education is so vital

    Letters: Investment in young people’s creativity after years of cuts will pay off for society as a whole, writes Matt Bell

June 2023

  • Tristram Hunt, is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former politician who has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017.

    My school is getting creative with a private partnership for its arts provision

  • Students working in their school art classroom, England. Labour has criticised low morale among teachers and a drop in arts provision.

    Labour accuses UK government of ‘stifling children’s creativity’

December 2022

  • Man's hand writing in a notebook.

    In focus
    A rich life in the UK’s creative industries is a long shot if you are born poor

    Tomiwa Owolade
    Low pay and job insecurity in the arts are increasingly making the field the preserve of the wealthy, and less diverse as a result, writes Tomiwa Owolade

August 2022

  • Clockwise from top left: Andrew O’Hagan, Jeffrey Boakye, Alex Chesterfield, Sarah Waters and Tulip Siddiq.

    What an English degree did for me, by Tulip Siddiq, Sarah Waters and more

    As universities close their English literature courses, we celebrate 40 influential British graduates

July 2022

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Tory contempt for the arts means we face a second dark age

    Stewart Lee
    Proposed cuts to English lit courses are symptomatic of the Conservatives’ ignorance of culture and disregard for ordinary people’s access to it

May 2022

  • Australian art scene illustration

    Want to make art? You better be rich: how Australian culture locked out the working class

  • Teenagers in school uniforms in a drama class

    The threat facing humanities and the arts

April 2022

  • ‘Why are we allowing our government to cut arts education?’ … Mark Rylance at the curtain call for Jerusalem on opening night this week.

    Mark Rylance calls out Tory arts cuts in new Jerusalem programme

    The actor, who is reprising his role in Jez Butterworth’s celebrated play, points out that leading politicians’ school Eton has extensive theatre facilities

July 2021

  • Helen Cammock

    Cuts to art subjects funding ‘walk us back 60 years’, says artist Helen Cammock

  • Gavin Williamson

    A skilled workforce needs arts graduates

  • Gavin Williamson

    Funding cuts to go ahead for university arts courses in England despite opposition

  • Fine arts graduate Archie White

    Former solicitor, 96, believed to be UK’s oldest new graduate

May 2021

  • ‘My mission was to find my own place in the world’: Rikki Beadle-Blair

    Black lives
    Rikki Beadle-Blair: the brilliant stage and screen writer who should be a household name

  • Sonia Boyce, the artist who will represent Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale, was a signatory to the letter, along with the directors of all four Tate galleries.

    ‘Strategic misstep’: arts education cuts risk UK cultural leadership, government told

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