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    Jan Dalley

    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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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      My top 10: Jan Dalley’s guide to the Prado museum in Madrid

      As part of a new FT Globetrotter series celebrating the world’s permanent collections, the FT’s arts editor reveals her favourite works to seek out in this great — and at times overwhelming — Spanish institution

      Detail from ‘Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi’ by Hieronymus Bosch showing the Three Kings paying homage to the infant Christ on Mary’s knee
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Art from across the world meets Moorish architecture at Mallorca’s Jakober Foundation

      Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu’s gloriously eclectic collection stages a meeting of cultures, styles and eras

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      InterviewDesign
      Cultural entrepreneur Suhair Khan on why tech and the arts need to work together

      The former Google executive has launched a collaborative platform for artists and technologists

      A woman in a gold and black quilted jacket sits on a sofa by a window looking wise
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen
      Food and Drink mini-series: Dan Barber says good food starts with seeds

      In our third bonus episode on food and drink, chef Dan Barber makes the case for seed-to-table farming

    • 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

      Martin Amis, pictured in Italy in 2014, was a novelist, essayist, commentator, teacher and influencer — a writer always surprising and controversial
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Why do we like to be beside the seaside?

      Two books take a tour of the glorious past and uncertain future of Britain’s coastal resorts

      Blue-and-white striped deckchairs crowd an English beach in summer
    • 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?

      Woman on the catwalk
    • 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

      illustration of a person looking for a job
    • 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

      A painting depicts a woman wearing a headscarf and a pearl earring, looking over her shoulder
    • 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
      Life and Art from 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?

      A group of people on a stage stand behind a man dressed in a blue military outfit
    • 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

      A group of well-dressed people stand on a pier and are addressed by a woman with a pink suit and clipboard
    • 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

      Two women holding a can of soup in front of a picture of yellow sunflowers
    • 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

      People looking at small sculptures in a purple-lit gallery
    • 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

      Bright painting of three figures in large colourful blocks
    • 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?

      Florence Pugh with ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ director Olivia Wilde and co-stars Gemma Chan, Harry Styles, Sydney Chandler, Chris Pine and Nick Kroll on the red carpet in Venice this week
    • 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

      The director sits at a white table against a red wall, glasses in hand
    • 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

      Macron is shown a display case of artefacts while camera crews film in the background
    • 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

      Richard Armstrong, tall, thin, bald, white beard, wearing a suit, shirt and tie, stands inside a museum gallery
    • 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

      A man in a black cap and black T-shirt stares at the camera
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