Browsing: Arts

The reported health benefits of engaging with art, discussed in your editorial (The Guardian view on public health and the arts: the all-singing, all-dancing science of…

Is it really news that the arts are good for you? On one level, the findings of a new study about the health benefits of engaging…

Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art…

As institutions continue to grapple with the rise of artificial intelligence, the University of Richmond is investing in a cross-campus initiative to integrate AI into the…

A poet is threatening Arts Council England (ACE) with legal action after a magazine it funds withdrew her work from publication based on her “social media…

Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny has won the coveted Album of the Year honour at the Grammy Awards, while Kendrick Lamar and SZA took home Record…

In his McTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival in 2024, the playwright James Graham called class “everyone’s least favourite diversity and representation category”. A socioeconomic…

An inquiry into class representation in creative fields has recommended changes believed to be the first of their kind in Greater Manchester to increase the number…

From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, the tortured-artist archetype looms large: private torment fuelling public brilliance.But across opera, theatre,…

As you listen to a Christmas performance of Handel’s Messiah, it is easy to persuade yourself that all is still well with music and the arts…