After more than a decade of slow erosion, the arts are finally being let back into the classroom. The Cultural Policy Unit — the small but influential think tank behind much of Labour’s arts agenda — has helped push through what looks to be the most significant...
Tate is calling for arts subjects to remain within the National Curriculum for Secondary Schools and for their inclusion in the English Baccalaureate. The proposals for the new Ebacc certificates to replace GCSEs announced last week do not include the arts as a core...
In a move to revive the dwindling presence of arts education in British schools, a coalition of more than 20 UK organisations has unveiled Arts and Minds, the first major campaign since last year’s general election. Led by the National Education Union (NEU) and...
The Royal College of Art, the world’s leading university of art and design, unveiled its new campus in Battersea, London on 23 May 2022, the most significant campus development in its history. The £135 million campus is designed by internationally acclaimed...
Lee Cavaliere is currently experiencing the busiest point of his career. He has worked tirelessly through the COVID crisis, as founder of The Sixteen Trust, an arts and education charity which has launched a mentoring programme bringing art professionals into schools...
A Major Art Collection including works by Barbara Hepworth and Keith Vaughan is to be sold on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council to fund much-stretched services but should this be happening at all? And will they squander the funds raised on everything but...
Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker is editor-in-chief of ArtWay, a website which seeks to stimulate reflection on the role of images in church and open up the world of the visual arts to the Church. She has a background in musicology and worked for many years as an editor,...
Tereza Buskova has been running an art club with the students at Chad Vale Primary since November 2017, and the results are strong and bristling with positive energy. As artist in residence, she has been delivering weekly after-school sessions in which the children...
Steve McQueen the Turner Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker together with Tate Britain, Artangel and A New Direction, have announced one of the world’s most ambitious contemporary art projects: a portrait of an entire age group of Londoners, capturing tens of thousands...