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    Arts editor

    Jan Dalley is the FT’s arts editor. She is responsible for the FT’s coverage of all the art forms, from opera to hiphop, sculpture to pop, film, theatre and more in the weekday pages as well as in Life & Arts in FT Weekend. She also writes features, interviews and occasional columns.

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    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      ObituaryMartin Amis
      Martin Amis, writer, 1949-2023

      The British novelist whose swagger and love of literary pyrotechnics produced dazzling, sardonic prose

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
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      Two books take a tour of the glorious past and uncertain future of Britain’s coastal resorts

    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      Fashion
      Tartan’s journey from the Highlands to high fashion

      A true folk fabric or a fantasy of a Scotland that never was?

    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      Special ReportWorld of Work
      Where are all the jobs? A sector guide for students

      We highlight employment prospects across various industries, from areas of growth to the skills most in demand

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Life & Arts
      I don’t need a lightshow to immerse myself in art

      Immersive Van Gogh has been a global blockbuster. Now David Hockney is getting in on the act

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How (not) to fund the arts

      The row over funding for the English National Opera highlights the weaknesses of the English system

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Arts
      From Vermeer to Joni Mitchell: hot tickets for 2023

      Amsterdam’s show of dozens of Vermeer works is set to be one of the highlights of a year that promises blockbusters, comebacks and a final farewell

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The imitation game: can software make artists redundant?

      The AI of Dall-E-2 may render striking Monet and Hockney lookalikes but artists should not be worried

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      FT Weekend podcast27 min listen
      Tamagotchis and reality TV: 2023 cultural predictions

      Lilah and FT Magazine editor Matt Vella discuss listeners’ forecasts for next year. Then, FT Weekend editors share their own

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Music
      When opera lost its voice

      With funding now completely cut, what is the future for the English National Opera?

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Rich-bashing is back (on screen)

      From ‘The White Lotus’ to Cannes-winner ‘Triangle of Sadness’, satires on the haves and have-yachts are trending

    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Art’s appetite for destruction

      The long history of defacing artworks reaches its nadir with a new show on Channel 4

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Paris+ par Art Basel 2022
      Art Basel’s latest emerging galleries section spans Beirut and Bogotá

      The grand fair is welcoming less established dealers in its new Paris+ edition

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Black History Month 2022 — celebrating creativity across the arts
      The 1-54 art fair is making African artists internationally visible

      As the fair’s 10th edition approaches, founder Touria El Glaoui believes the continent’s talent is gaining recognition

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      A Hollywood story that’s all froth and no moral

      Why has the brouhaha over the movie ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ had such staying power?

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      InterviewDance
      Sadler’s Wells launches ambitious Rose International Dance Prize

      Director Alistair Spalding on the creation of a biennial worldwide award with a mysterious benefactor

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      A high-stakes game of marbles

      The politics of restitution are often opaque — but not in the case of the Parthenon Marbles

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Lunch with the FT
      Melvyn Bragg: ‘Oxford was great. But it wasn’t as good as Wigton’

      The British broadcaster and novelist on the secrets of his Cumbrian childhood, his 50 years of championing the arts — and what cut short his movie career

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong: ‘I’m calm about the whole future of museums’

      As he announces his exit after 15 years, the museum head discusses ‘broadening who is on view’ and embracing the digital

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Tefaf Maastricht 2022
      Laura Kugel: ‘We have been saving up objects, unseen discoveries’

      The sixth-generation dealer in her family’s Parisian blue-chip gallery on adapting in a changing market and exhibiting at Tefaf

    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Rashid Johnson: ‘I still had more I wanted to know, I wasn’t ready’

      The American explores new media and current issues — identity, freedom, healing — in his Hauser & Wirth show

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Art Basel 2022
      Hauser & Wirth puts education alongside exhibition

      Its gallery in Menorca hosts student residencies and an extensive learning programme

    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Should we send borrowed art back to Russia?

      How the return of truckloads of masterpieces from the west is dividing opinion

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Identity redraws the landscape of art

      Exhibitions organised around gender or sexuality are shaking up our preconceptions — but there can be a cost

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Life & Arts
      No place left for nuance with Roe vs Wade

      New films about the fight for women’s rights offer deeply felt, careful contributions to the debate on abortion — but will they change anyone’s mind?

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