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Arts funding

March 2024

  • 'Baroness Jennie Lee' from the cover and Observer magazine feature 'Jennie Lee: My Life with Nye', by David Newell-Smith.Published on 3 December 1972. GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/4/1/9/12 3_12 Jennie Jennie Lee.

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

  • A cyclist avoids potholes along a road near Preston Park in Brighton, East Sussex

    ‘Impossible numbers’: where could Jeremy Hunt’s budget cuts fall?

  • A scene from Standing at the Sky’s Edge on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage

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

  • People walk past the Council House in Birmingham

    Councils in crisis
    ‘A huge step back for the city’: people in Birmingham on council budget cuts

  • Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe

  • One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it

    Aditya Chakrabortty

February 2024

  • Robert Macfarlane, Matt Haig and Feargal Sharkey.

    Arts Council England says funding will not be removed for ‘political’ artists

  • (L-R) Nick Rhodes, Actress, Joe Lycett, Carlos Acosta, Marnz Malone, Napalm Death and Roger Taylor

    Lycett, Acosta and Duran Duran condemn Birmingham’s 100% arts budget cut

  • Ian McKellen at the Birmingham Rep.

    The Guardian view on the false alternatives of arts funding: we need bread but also roses

  • Rebecca O’Brien, left, with Paul Laverty and Ken Loach at the Baftas last weekend.

    UK indie films will ‘die’ without fiscal aid, Ken Loach producer says

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

    Sonia Sodha
  • Arts Council England to update ‘activist statements’ guidance after backlash

  • English National Opera musicians call off strike action after agreement reached

  • Arts Council England mired in row over ‘political statements’ warning

  • The tale of the Northern Irish rap group, the Tories – and the sinister censoring of ‘anti-British’ art

    Anna Cafolla
  • Frank Bowling sells signed prints to buy art supplies for 100 schools

  • Theatre needs risk-takers like Kwame Kwei-Armah whose Young Vic has been dynamite

    Arifa Akbar
  • Kwame Kwei-Armah steps down from Young Vic and calls for ‘government intervention’ for theatres

January 2024

  • Demonstrators outside Endeavour House protest against Suffolk county council’s proposed cuts to arts funding.

    Councils in crisis
    ‘This system is broken’: protesters say Suffolk cuts encapsulate UK arts crisis

  • Laurie Kynaston and George Fouracres  in Mates in Chelsea at the Royal Court in November 2023

    Royal Court refuses to rule out job losses as funding cuts bite

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