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The new chief conductor at the London Symphony insists cultural organisations are there to perform rather than educate or deal with society’s ills

Edward Hall left the UK to take up a role in Chicago and says the funding model in the US is a refreshing change

Bonhams to sell medal depicting Mehmed II, who seized the Christian city of Constantinople in 1453

The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine attributed a huge rise in mental health consultations to financial insecurity and the pandemic

As Napoleon pointed his cannon at the pyramids, Britain’s unsung Oscar hero ignored the gunpowder and brought out the talcum variety.The resulting detonation — while perhaps less explosive than in

Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro are among 70 fellows who have called for action to ‘help to heal the fissures that have opened’ in the 200-year-old society

The British director often gets up in the middle of the night to write down ideas for blockbusters such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight Rises

Women and girls ‘deterred from playing masculine instruments’

Jonathan Glazer has made cinema history by becoming the first Briton to be nominated for best director, best film and best foreign language film at the Oscars.Glazer, whose Holocaust film The Zone of

David Sylvester’s daughters hit back at accusations he was given artworks in return for praise

For the first time since 1952, women have spent more weeks at No 1 than men and have dominated the 2023 singles chart

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The Dutch museum director who masterminded this year’s blockbuster Vermeer exhibition has revealed the secret of its success — gradually grow attendances until visitors tell you “enough is enough”.

Britain needs to rediscover its literary heritage, says Katherine Rundell

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has revealed how a contraband copy of The Handmaid’s Tale smuggled into her Iranian prison kept up her spirits while she was locked up

It chronicled the Beatles’ last creative blast in a recording studio then a large part of it was unceremoniously dumped on a north London street.Now it is expe

Museums cannot be activists, the director of the National Portrait Gallery has said, as he unveiled a replacement sponsor for BP: a legal firm with extensive li

The “corkscrewing” of brainwaves is set to be witnessed across the nation’s galleries — especially if they are displaying abstract art.Art Fund has launched a

Jimi Hendrix’s “snarling” face from the period he revolutionised music has been resurrected — on the bonnet of the world’s “first fully reversible” electric E-T

TikTok has helped heat up the romantic fiction genre with booksellers now unashamedly bringing Mills & Boon out from their basements, publishers say.Sales of no