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Arts funding

May 2024

  • David Byrne pictured in 2020

    UK arts need ‘rescue package’ to avoid lost generation, says Royal Court boss

    David Byrne calls for urgent state support for young playwrights, particularly those from minority or working-class backgrounds

April 2024

  • Woman's hand with brush painting on canvas

    Australian arts in focus
    Male artists overrepresented in Australian galleries and museums, research shows

  • Polly Toynbee

    The Tories’ poisonous anti-culture politics has crushed the arts. Bring on election night

    Polly Toynbee
  • Lisa Stansfield performing at the Northern music awards at the Albert Hall in Manchester.

    Northern music awards winners call for more help for region’s emerging talents

  • Elaine Bedell stands in a small garden on the South Bank, with the Centre and the London Eye ferris wheel visible in the background behind her

    Observer business profile
    Running the cash-strapped Southbank Centre: ‘We feared Cate Blanchett would get stuck in a lift!’

  • Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

  • Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
    I value Brummie art, but who else does?

    Stewart Lee
  • Scotland’s artists fear ‘cultural black hole’ after festival and film project cancelled

  • Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

  • Scottish authors criticise cancellation of Glasgow literary festival Aye Write

March 2024

  • Aviva Studios Factory International arts venue, Manchester

    Arts funding must be at the centre of government plans

  • The Nash Ensemble, joined by the BBC Singers, performs Harrison Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem at Wigmore Hall, London, on Tuesday 26 March, 2024. © The Wigmore Hall Trust, 2024

    Wigmore Hall launches £10m fund in bid to be self-sustaining

  • A mural depicting phases of the New Deal in the US, by Conrad Albrizio

    Rejuvenating and protecting the arts requires creative thinking

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a ski map with comedy venues on the mountaintops.

    Which will melt away first, the snow or the arts?

    Stewart Lee
  • ‘We’re barely hanging on’: England’s cultural jewels fall into the red

  • Other lives
    Tim Joss obituary

  • In the name of anti-elitism, Arts Council England has declared war on opera and excellence

    Catherine Bennett
  • Mary Archer to lead review of Arts Council England use of funds

  • I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action

    Charlotte Higgins
  • Macbeth review – powerful Verdi staging marks the end for a great company

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