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Arts

May 2026

  • Child drawing in school

    Arts engagement benefits young and old

  • Two figures draped in translucent fabric against a black background, their faces partially visible through the material

    Photo London 2026 Student Award – in pictures

    Gallery12

February 2026

  • George Derbyshire during his time at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he worked with John Hosier

    Other lives
    George Derbyshire obituary

    Other lives: Finance director with the BBC and Guildhall School of Music and Drama

January 2026

  • Nazir Afzal wearing a black top, stood in the garden, arms crossed

    Report sets out ‘blueprint for change’ to increase working-class representation in the arts

    Inquiry finds class should become protected characteristic and calls for rise in number of apprenticeships

December 2025

  • Humphrey Burton

    Humphrey Burton, renowned arts broadcaster, dies at 94

    Former BBC head of music and arts hailed as ‘huge influence on generations of arts programme-makers’

November 2025

  • The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

    It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts

    Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng

October 2025

  • Section of the 12th-century Eadwine Psalter illuminated manuscript, held by Trinity College Cambridge.

    Degrees that teach critical thinking can never be a ‘rip-off’

  • Angela Hobart

    Other lives
    Angela Hobart obituary

September 2025

  • Owen Cooper, the youngest male actor to win an Emmy, at the awards on 14 September.

    The Guardian view on Adolescence cleaning up at the Emmys: the importance of grassroots drama training

    Editorial: Theatre schools are in crisis. More must be done to nurture young talent like Owen Cooper across the country

August 2025

  • BBC Proms: Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony performed on 2 August 2025 at the Royal Albert Hall, London

    In times of despair, try to glimpse the stars

    Letters: Colin Brown, Catherine Jessop, Tony Waterston, Peter Lowe and James Kydd respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article on finding hope amid horror

July 2025

  • Lord Lipsey outside the House of Lords, where he often spoke up for the arts.

    Letter: Lord Lipsey obituary

    Martin Kettle writes: David Lipsey’s commitment to classical music education stood out

February 2025

  • Schoolchildren raising their hands on educational school trip to the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

    Class act: how the British arts are failing on diversity
    Boosting public funding is the only way to make the arts more inclusive

    Letters: Readers respond to Guardian analysis on how the arts sector is still a barrier for working-class people
  • Group of children with teacher enjoying dancing

    Getting into the dance groove at school can help young people

    Letters: Dance can inspire reluctant learners and those with mental health and anger issues, writes Penny Perrett

    • Time to commit to culture and the arts

    • The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts

    • double quotation mark‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government

      Charlotte Higgins

January 2025

  • Local performers take part in the Whirligig Festival of Outdoor Arts in Weston-super-Mare.

    ‘National catastrophe’: drama school funding crisis in England sparks concern

    Actors Samuel West and Paapa Essiedu join calls for urgent action to protect and expand access to arts

November 2024

  • A group of private school students sit in front of an abbey wearing robes

    Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

  • David Shrigley with the Mantis Muse, a sculpture that is at the centre of a two-week alternative curriculum he is bringing to his former school in Leicestershire.

    Full Steam ahead for creativity in all subjects

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music
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