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Arts policy

October 2025

  • Riding a wave … means surrendering to the pull.

    ‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

  • Manchester-based musician Lily Rae Grant plays inside the Cathedral of Sound sculpture by Lazerian which is made from reclaimed guitars at Mayfield Park in the city

    The Guardian view on working-class representation in the arts: Manchester can lead the way

September 2025

  • Derek Purnell in Concerto Barocco Anthony Crickmay/courtesy BRB

    Derek Purnell obituary

    Dancer and later chief executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet who took leading roles at the Wallace Collection and then Strawberry Hill House in London

August 2025

  • Woman looking at paintings in a gallery

    Looming crisis for NSW’s regional galleries averted with $15.4m in state arts funding

    Labor announced on Thursday Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program will provide financial assistance for 62 organisations statewide

July 2025

  • Older people congregate in a drama space with parquet flooring, surrounding a poster for a performance, and accompanied by younger actors Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs

    ‘This is art, too’: the Madrid drama space bringing contemporary theatre to older citizens

    Participants in the Teatro Español’s Senior Audience School discover that theatre ‘takes the sting out of the nonsense in life’

June 2025

  • Ben Jennings on the threat posed by AI to the creative industries – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on the threat posed by AI to the creative industries – cartoon

  • Indhu Rubasingham

    Labour plans risk excluding disabled people from workforce, say arts leaders

May 2025

  • Sir Nicholas Serota

    Arts Council England chair says sector at ‘tipping point’ amid funding fears

  • Black actors in a modern-day production of Antigone

    Arts groups for people of color steel themselves after Trump’s NEA cuts: ‘They poked the bear’

April 2025

  • A towering Victorian textile mill that now serves as a cinema

    Almost a third of UK independent cinemas say they are at risk

    Exclusive: Survey by the Independent Cinema Office shows urgent need for capital investment in sector

March 2025

  • Musicians of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective rehearsing at Wigmore Hall in London

    Arts Council England defends support of classical music amid loss of trust

  • Drummer performing with four horn players behind

    Performing arts leaders issue copyright warning over UK government’s AI plans

  • Hilary Keenlyside, arts management consultant, in 2017

    Hilary Keenlyside obituary

  • a seal for the national endowment for the arts on a building facade

    US arts funding agency sued over Trump order targeting LGBTQ+ projects

February 2025

  • The secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Lisa Nandy, arrives in Downing Street to attend the weekly cabinet meeting in London.

    The Guardian view on Labour arts policy: time to make history again

  • Arts Council England signage

    Arts Council England to shelve new funding plan after outcry from producers

  • A balding man with a combover salutes a football field.

    ‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes

  • Will Hayward

    Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture

    Will Hayward

January 2025

  • Former Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney attend the world premiere of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years in London

    Paul McCartney says change in law over AI could ‘rip off’ artists

  • Graham Marchant

    Graham Marchant obituary

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