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Funding is difficult, but local councils must wake up to the potential of the art and museums in their care, and fight to secure their future

The Cultural Learning Alliance has released a report which makes a reasoned case for adding the arts to the STEM subjects. Will the government take note?

It was Berger’s ability to listen that made him such an important storyteller

Gothic cathedrals were designed to withstand enormous wind pressures, so Soissons has been exceptionally unlucky

A long-running institutional feud seems to have moved into more a personal phase

There was much controversy over cultural spending last year, and as cuts start to bite in 2017, there may well be again

The Art Strike brings art back to the real world and those values we need to cherish

His appointment as V&A director is surprising but could prove inspired

Kirklees Council’s proposal to sell off Francis Bacon’s ‘Figure Study II’ is just a taste of things to come

Britain’s oldest manufacturing company, whose origins date back to 1420, is to close this May. What will happen to its historic home?

British modernism is having a ‘moment’ and Jonathan Jones is displeased. Why is he so upset, and what does any of it have to do with Brexit?

Giorgio Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ was severely damaged in the devastating Florence floods of 1966. Fifty years later, it’s back on display after one of the most complex conservation projects ever undertaken

Ten design teams have been announced – how will they reflect on the particular site of the memorial’s construction?

The early listing of James Stirling’s No. 1 Poultry says more about the architect’s stature than it does about postmodernism as a style

In 2015 Garabet left war-torn Syria for Germany. But even from the relative safety of Europe, the cartoonist fears the consequences of his critical work

A decade ago, Miami looked set to become a thriving art city. So why are local artists and galleries still struggling to gain recognition?

This is a great way to relive the ‘pageant-fever’ of earlier, more technologically innocent decades

Apollo’s annual awards are a great opportunity to reflect on the achievements of the art world, and the people within it who are driving it forwards

The first prosecution for destroying cultural heritage at the ICC has led some critics to ask if war crimes against people should come first