Department of Culture, Media and Sport

An open letter to Chris Bryant, the tenth UK arts minister in ten years

Labour’s pre-election arts manifesto, Creating Growth, included policies to put the arts back into education and bring museums into line with universities on open data

Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah among 4,000 arts professionals urging UK government to stand up for culture

The Venice Biennale artists are backing a collective manifesto which calls for new policies to support the visual arts

Exclusive: UK shadow culture secretary to map out first national infrastructure plan for the arts

In an interview ahead of the Labour conference, Thangam Debbonaire also promises action on artist visas, copyright law and artificial intelligence

Why has no one been invited to follow in the footsteps of Hollar, Lowry and Topolski as a coronation artist?

Music and poetry have been created to mark the crowning of Charles III as king, but—for the first time since the 17th century—there will be no official artist

British Museum staff to strike as cultural workers across UK take industrial action—including during school holiday

Workers at the Wallace Collection, Historic England, National Museums Scotland and the National Museum of Liverpool will also be striking over pay and labour conditions

Digital Ageanalysis

New online safety laws aim to protect children—but will they harm artists?

As the UK’s troubled Online Safety Bill finally looks set to become law, there are still concerns about whether it will get the balance between online safety and censorship right

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Tearing down troubling statues is not lying about our history—it is removing impediments to truth

The UK communities secretary Robert Jenrick's plans to prevent the removal of controversial monuments reveals his inability to view the past as shifting and complex