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Arts funding

July 2024

  • Melvyn Bragg sitting at a table opposite Tracey Emin in her studio with her paintings in the background.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

    Melvyn Bragg makes an impassioned plea to save the arts in Britain; wronged subpostmasters tell their story; a medieval romp channels Covid and The White Lotus. Plus, a time-travelling Lisa Kudrow
  • A composite photo of people protesting with signs reading "Fund the Arts – Musicians' Union" and "To all people equity" but chopped up to represent the Tories cutting the arts

    Britain behind Europe in arts funding and education, ‘crisis’ report shows

    State of the Art reveals that while Germany, France and Finland have each increased culture spending by up to 70%, Britain has cut its budget by 6%

    • Investment in the arts will pay off for Lisa Nandy

    • Britain needs a cultural reboot. Here’s my five-point plan to fix the arts

      Nicholas Serota

    • Nandy wasn’t supposed to head up culture, but could her level-headed approach be just the ticket?

      Charlotte Higgins

June 2024

  • Charlotte Geeves the executive director of the Bristol Old Vic.

    Dreams and jobs slowly fade away as Bristol bears brunt of arts cuts

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks into a microphone

    Ron DeSantis strips more than $32m in Florida arts funding

  • TorySpare us the cutter … will a new government see a new settlement for the arts?

    ‘The business is no longer sustainable’: the inside story of how Tory cuts devastated the arts

  • ‘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

  • ‘My studio costs half my income’: can British art survive soaring rents and property developers?

  • Belfast rappers Kneecap to contest pulling of funding over political views

  • Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman call for urgent political support for the arts

  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society CEO defends Baillie Gifford sponsorship

  • ‘I wouldn’t call it a victory’: Fossil Free Books organisers on Baillie Gifford’s exit from literary festival funding

  • How do I live my best life? I’ll consult a painting, thanks – not my smug ‘AI future self’

    Viv Groskop

  • Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil

May 2024

  • Close up of Timothy Spall holding a Bafta award up to his face

    Next UK government must not treat arts as ‘bloodsucker’, says Timothy Spall

  • Members of English National Opera protest at plans to move the organisation out of London

    The Guardian view on discord in the arts world: a distraction from the real crisis

  • Bryony Bond, in a puffer jacket and with short curly hair, stands in front of a brick building with a mural of swirly plants on it

    ‘A kick in the teeth’: Leeds artists fear loss of spaces is killing cultural scene

  • Supported by Arts Council England sign

    ACE’s ‘political statements’ warning to artists came after government talks

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