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‘There’s so much of Scotland in them’: cuts to Edinburgh College of Art craft degrees spark backlash

The university’s decision to close its textiles, jewellery and silversmithing, and performance costume undergraduate courses has been framed as a threat to preserving some of the country’s cultural traditions

Toledo Museum of Art launches initiative to donate art books to African libraries

The Ohio institution has given books to the Koyo Kouoh Library at the Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art in Rwanda, and to the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana

V&A proposing significant cuts to its academy amid financial pressures

The proposals would end many of the UK institution’s in-person adult-learning courses, and come despite the academy’s recent record sales

Philadelphia Museum of Art receives $20m to establish new education centre

The gift from Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky will be used to strengthen the museum’s ties with local schools, families and children

London's Courtauld and National Portrait Gallery announce partnership for aspiring curators

The partnership will allow MA Curating students at the Courtauld Institute of Art to gain practical experience within the National Portrait Gallery

How Trump’s signature bill could make arts education in the US even more expensive

Many experts are worried that parts of the so-called One Big Beautiful Act could seriously stymie access to art schools

Art and design A-levels at lowest uptake since 2010 according to UK advocacy group

The recent release of A-level and GSCE data for UK students and schools has renewed calls to ‘revitalise arts education’

Royal College of Art and Norwich University of the Arts announce jointly awarded undergraduate degrees

Undergraduate art students will be able to study for the jointly awarded degree based at the Norwich University of the Arts from September 2027

Glasgow School of Art says £265m needed to restore destroyed Mackintosh building is ‘unaffordable’

The future of the iconic Art Nouveau building may be in jeopardy following fires in 2014 and 2018, as the Scottish art school looks for external funding

Education, arts and heritage meet in Doha’s new museum

Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum is a modern cultural learning space where visitors can explore the artist’s work but also engage with a new model for educational arts practice in Qatar

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UK arts education to get £1.5m boost with launch of new award scheme

The Freelands Foundation will give £100,000 of unrestricted funding to three organisations annually for the next five years—in a drive to re-affirm them “as centres for public education”

Philadelphia’s former University of the Arts buildings become hubs for community and creativity

Following the bankrupted institution’s closure in 2024, developer Scout has transformed two of its buildings into a Village of Industry and Art

UK government set to scrap English baccalaureate, which made arts education ‘the preserve of a privileged few’

Campaigners have welcomed the change, which they say represents a move away from inequality

Comment | Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’ sparked my love of art. Let's give others the chance to find their own way in

The arts education crisis in the UK risks holding the young back from discovering what visual culture can teach us about self-expression, empathy, open-mindedness and more

Chicago school refurbished by Theaster Gates's non-profit will reopen to the public

The Land School, a $12m redevelopment project on the city's South Side backed by Gates' Rebuild Foundation, will launch its first phase on 14 September

New York’s School of Visual Arts lays off 30 employees amid financial difficulties

The move sheds light on the budgetary struggles plaguing the art school

Trump seeks to defund Institute of American Indian Arts

The only four-year college of its kind is on Trump's chopping block, along with countless other Indigenous causes

‘There is not enough money for education’: French philanthropist to fund museum visits for 100,000 UK children

Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum

Could artwork donations provide stability for cash-strapped UK art schools? London's Goldsmiths College thinks so

The college has launched a new model, backed by a £4m art donation, encouraging donors to give money and art, or entire collections, to support its teaching and finances

Former San Francisco Art Institute will become non-accredited, studio-based art school following campus restoration

As for the famed Diego Rivera mural housed there, its owner promises that public access will be “prioritised and maintained”

Major campaign to revamp UK arts education launches at Tate Modern

The Arts and Minds campaign, which is supported by artists including Bob and Roberta Smith and Helen Cammock, seeks to put creativity front and centre within British school curriculums

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Comment | Don’t try to keep working-class students in a narrow educational lane

This idea of exposing working-class school students only to the stories of working-class heroes, at the expense of “middle-class pursuits” such as museums, is misguided

Antony Micallef

Barbara Hepworth sculpture rediscovered in UK school headmaster’s office to be auctioned

Proceeds from the sale of the polished bronze work—the identity of was lost to time after it was bequeathed in the 1960s—will go towards student bursaries

Damien Hirst selects $6.2m banana artwork for UK schools project

The British artist selected Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous conceptual piece to appear digitally in schools across the next two years

The art world according to Marc Spiegler: former Art Basel boss launches online course

In collaboration with the events platform Art Market Minds, the ten-hour programme will dissect the rapidly shifting contemporary art ecosystem

‘Art is being squeezed out’: Royal Academy poster campaign calls for increased arts education in UK schools

The campaign highlights the dramatic drop in number of students studying art, design and technology at GCSE

Running an art school in London is not easy, but in The Art Academy the capital finally has a space that breaks the mould

The institution, which is about to welcome the first students to its new home, takes a refreshing and genuinely democratising approach to art education

How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

As government aims to put the arts at the heart of the curriculum, an Art UK project is teaching children how to 'cope with today’s image-saturated world'