NewsEducation
Ancient history? Worcester University to close its archaeology department in another blow to heritage sector
Decision is a "canary in the coal mine" for other arts and humanities subjects, warns museums body
NewsArts funding
UK government approves 50% funding cut for arts and design courses
Education secretary Gavin Williamson says money will be directed towards Stem subjects
NewsArt market
US collectors aim to give Indigenous Australian curators 'a seat at the table' with fundraising sale of $1.5m Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri painting
L. John and Barbara Wilkerson are selling Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya via Melbourne gallery to fund new arts leadership education programme in the US
NewsArt education
Uproar as UK government plans to cut funding for arts education by 50% to prioritise 'high-value subjects'
Artists express concerns and the Public Campaign for the Arts launches a petition as the consultation on the planned budget cuts to higher education ends today
NewsAdrian Piper
Adrian Piper plans a protest in Berlin over school class sizes
The 15 May demonstration is part of her ongoing Wahlkampagne criticizing Germany’s education system
NewsVancouver
Arts Umbrella, Canada’s largest culture educator, opens new $27m home in Vancouver
The new education centre on Granville Island with arts, music, film and dance studios, will serve 24,000 student annually
NewsEducation
How racist is UK art education? A new report aims to find out
Freelands Foundation and Runnymede Trust have partnered up to investigate racial inequality in schools and universities
NewsBrexit
Huge fee hikes for EU students who want to study art in the UK come into force from September
Visa issues and increased red tape could also deter European Union applicants, warn university leaders
NewsEducation
Postgraduate art history students in UK say they are being encouraged to produce ‘less rigorous and ambitious’ research in light of pandemic
As the funding body, UK Research and Innovation, restricts additional funding, students are being asked to rethink projects
NewsEducation
Oxford University’s All Souls College drops Christopher Codrington’s name from its library—but refuses to remove slave owner’s statue
Decision comes as scrutiny mounts over the university’s colonial legacy, including at Oriel College where a commission on Cecil Rhodes monument has been delayed
NewsMuseums & Heritage
ICA Miami expands online programming and scholarship with $2m grant
The institution’s Art + Research Center will be renamed after the Knight Foundation in light of gift, which funds two new positions and educational initiatives
NewsArt schools
Danish art school on brink of closure after director resigns following misconduct allegations
Open letter from current and former students accuses Fatamorgana's founding director Morten Bo of “unpleasant, degrading, discriminatory” behaviour
NewsEducation
International art students may be forced to leave the US under Trump's new ICE policy on remote learning
Harvard and MIT filed lawsuits against the US government while the president of CalArts calls the move an act of "political theatre" amid the pandemic
NewsControversies
Mary Rose Museum 'appalled' by David Starkey's racist remarks as British historian steps down as trustee
Tudor specialist has been widely condemned for remarks on slavery and Black Lives Matter in YouTube interview
Commentcoronavirus
Britain's young artists had a hard time before the pandemic. What will happen to them now?
Inequality is rife in British society, not least in the arts, where decades of ‘class-cleansing’ policies have made it harder than ever to be an artist and designer
NewsArt education
Wave of museum educator redundancies worldwide sparks open letter
Art historians and curators urge galleries to support education staff during coronavirus crisis
NewsUnited Kingdom
UK art schools begin 14-day strike action
Dispute centres on zero-hours contracts, pay devaluation, rising workloads and the gender and ethnicity pay gap
CommentEducation
‘Art history is a global discipline’
The head of Yale’s art history department explains the university’s decision to change its introductory survey course
NewsArt education
Is art history under threat? UK universities see 28.5% drop in the subject in past decade
Latest figures show decline in first year students choosing humanities degrees in favour of business, agriculture and medicine
NewsPhotography
JR launches open call on Instagram for his new free photography course
French artist says he will invite Naomi Campbell to school in Paris to help him teach 12 budding photographers
NewsArt education
Art school shake up: London's Courtauld Institute to offer Modern and contemporary African art degrees
New Tate curator calls the development "a bold decision" in a "burgeoning field"
NewsEducation
Free arts education programme started in Harlem expands to major US cities
ProjectArt fills a void in the American public school system, adding initiatives in New Orleans and San Francisco this autumn
CommentUK politics
Politics requires a science degree? Why Boris Johnson's chief strategist is wrong about arts education
“If you are interested in politics you will be far better off if you study maths or physics,” writes aide Dominic Cummings in his blog
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Letters: Does the V&A still believe in education?
The Association of Art Historians on the National Slide Library's proposed move from London to Leicester
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Three become one: Montpellier Contemporain unites art school with exhibition venues
The newly created institution will involve all 200 students of the Montpellier School of Fine Arts
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Culture Pass brings library patrons to New York museums—and now, museums to libraries
Branches across the boroughs are now hosting museums' educational programmes
NewsBuilding projects
Miami’s Art Center/South Florida gets a new facility—and a new name
Oolite Arts is due to move from Miami Beach to a purpose-built space on the mainland
NewsLaw
National Gallery's art educators owed same rights as permanent staff, London tribunal rules
NG27 group's case is described as first in public sector to address concerns over “gig economy” but museum says there will be implications
NewsRoyal College of Art
Despite Brexit, applications from EU up 12% at London's Royal College of Art
Art and design institution announces five-year plan centred on $108m Battersea base
NewsEducation
Oxford museums train refugees as tour guides and community curators
Berlin’s Multaka programme of Arabic-language tours is spreading to the UK—and beyond
BlogDiary of an art historian
Tate, WTF is up with you using Wikipedia?
Once an expert authority on Van Dyck, the museum now has nothing more to say about him than a link to an unverified website
NewsFrieze London 2018
Christie's to auction works by Grenfell victim Khadija Saye
Profits from the sale will support new UK arts education programme in 2019
NewsEducation
Art Fund's new student pass scheme offers 500 paid jobs in culture sector
UK non-profit's plan may draw in young crowds which are a target demographic for museums
NewsEducation
Labour Party to put creativity 'back at the heart of the school curriculum'
Pledge comes at a time of decline in arts subjects in schools
NewsPrizes
Read the winning essays in new UK prize for art history writing
Write on Art initiative was launched to combat the decline of arts teaching in schools
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Art educators take London's National Gallery to employment tribunal in 'gig economy' dispute
Artists and lecturers are crowdfunding for legal fees in bid to win employee status
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Programme of paid internships aims to make US museum staff more diverse
Association of Art Museum Directors launches scheme to provide undergraduate students from minority backgrounds with hands-on experience
NewsArt market
New initiative aims to increase social mobility and diversity in the art industry
Easel will offer careers information, a mentorship programme and a grant scheme to subsidise low wages in entry level roles
NewsEducation
$1m award-winning teacher brings high-profile artists and cultural figures into deprived London schools
Andria Zafirakou’s Artists in Residence campaign launches as creative arts are squeezed in UK classrooms
NewsDisasters & destruction
Can the Glasgow School of Art be saved after second fire?
Anger as focus turns to cause of blaze that ripped through Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece
CommentSaudi Arabia
Letter to the Editor: Saudi Arabia will collaborate with the world, not only France, to make its cultural heritage accessible
Al-Ula, the most important cultural heritage site in the north-west of the kingdom, will benefit from international standards in heritage preservation and planning
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Royal Academy launches new £34,000 postgraduate course. But who can afford it?
The institution is entering the lucrative world of branded education
News
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens new Glassell School of Art building
Education is the MFAH’s “first and enduring mission”, says director Gary Tinterow
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
How the Royal Academy Schools shook off their fusty image
Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution's postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London
NewsPhilanthropy
Russian billionaire’s Peri Foundation will keep paying for culture after arrest
It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges
NewsEducation
Open letter signed by over 100 artists, including Grayson Perry, slates UK’s education policy
New Ebacc qualification marginalises the arts and damages the future of young people in the country, say Turner prize winners
NewsVideo, film & new media
TED-style art history platform aims to promote arts education online
Heni Talks features videos from artists including Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller
NewsEducation
New lease of life for life drawing classes?
Age-old practice is being ‘gradually reinvigorated', but new frontier is seemingly in 3D reprographic skills
NewsPrizes
New prize looks to put art history back on UK’s academic agenda
Judges, including Jeremy Deller, hope that Write on Art will inspire young people to take up the subject
NewsOpenings
Princeton University celebrates new Lewis Center for the Arts
College’s first purpose-built arts facility was a decade in the making
NewsArt schools
Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of cowardice and censorship over its treatment of former professor and Henry Darger expert Michael Bonesteel
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New professorial position at UK university dedicated to contemporary art and culture of the Middle East
Editor and academic Anthony Downey will establish a postgraduate programme in partnership with organisations in the region
NewsEducation
Art History A-level back on the curriculum
High-profile campaign by leading art world figures helped save the subject
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Open School East decamps from London to seaside resort Margate
Free art school’s move follows growing number of artists relocating to more affordable Kent coast <br> <br>
NewsArt schools
It’s a long way from Black Mountain College
Art schools are at a crossroads as student numbers boom, tuition fees soar and traditional assumptions are challenged.
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Royal College of Art suspends first year of course due to staff shortage
Closure is latest upset for college criticised by some for being too “business-like”
NewsEducation
Pilot scheme tackles skills shortage
Lack of building conservation workers has become "acute" in US
CommentEducation
Senior arts appointments nothing short of a French farce
A row over the appointment of a new head for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts is just the latest in a string of scandals over plum arts jobs
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Art teachers caught in crossfire over university sexual-assault debate
Freedom of expression at centre of lawsuit claiming that professor’s advice was “harassment”
CommentCommercial galleries
Artistic success in America means wearing the right old school tie
Despite paying lip service to diversity, New York’s major museums, galleries and university programmes are bound tightly together in a system that favours the privileged
ArchiveNews
Warhol to be studied in medical school
The initiative aims to help doctors improve their observation skills
ArchiveArt fairs
Art Basel Miami Beach to be studied for Swiss sociology project
Collectors and dealers alike must prepare for questioning as art-money relationship comes under the microscope
ArchiveDigital Age
Congress approves $100,000 for pilot digital project
Digital Promise non-profit will develop electronic education programmes
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
Sainsbury's wedding present to fund Japanese cultural studies in East Anglia
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
ArchiveEducation
Professor David Harris, outgoing director of the Institute of Archaeology, London, discusses the work of one of the world’s leading research departments
“A world institute involved in world archaeology”
ArchiveEducation
Oxford’s new Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art advocates for history by other means.
Bert Smith calls for scholars with broader interests who publish their material.
ArchiveUnesco
Interview with Khamliène Nhouyvanisvong, UNESCO's new Special Representative to Cambodia
He plans to develop learning centres, nominate new World Heritage sites, preservation of monuments, and protection of Angkor
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A curtails access to its national collections of slides and books
National Slide Library transfer to Leicester to proceed in spite of protests
ArchiveEducation
New school curriculum report: Leonardo for seven-year-olds?
A renewed emphasis on Western art is apparent
CommentMuseums
Eight ways museums could make the most of the coronavirus crisis
Failure to seize this opportunity to make changes would be a graver error than any breach of etiquette
Adrian Ellis