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
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
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
News
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
News
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
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
Tim Barringer