The video for Swift’s LGBTQ+ anthem is erected on the stereotype of the redneck homophobe
The inquiry into the arts sector’s ‘class ceiling’ follows renewed concern around diversity and exclusion
Evidence suggests that social stratification in UK arts participation is caused by imbalance between funding priorities and public taste
Children from lower income families half as likely to learn a musical instrument as their richer counterparts
The LA-based artist’s videos, sculptures and photographs frame public drinking as an issue of gender, race and class
In further news: UK class gap impacting young people’s engagement with the arts; Uffizi goes digital; British Museum helps return Iraqi antiquities
Is the lack of social mobility in the arts due to a self-congratulatory conviction that the sector represents the solution rather than the problem?
In further news: a report shows significant class divide in the arts; and Helen Cammock wins Max Mara art prize
A new report suggests that women, people from working-class backgrounds and BAME workers all face significant exclusion
What the designer will look for at Frieze, from John Chamberlain to Outsider artists
Claire Simon's new documentary exposes the workings of an elite film school
From existentialist heartthrobs to the end of existence: what to read this weekend
Eric Wesley's latest project, burritos and the search for Middle America
The second of three articles exploring art, class and precarity: an interview with writer and sociologist Didier Eribon
The first of three articles exploring art, class and precarity: a range of artists, curators and writers explore how class shapes art-making today
Part seven of our US election series: Ben Davis on why the topic of class has returned to the national conversation
Dan Fox explores the complication of class in the art world
From Claudia Rankine on whiteness to the history of the medicine cabinet: what to read this weekend
From collecting apparitions to the contested legacy of black nationalism: what to read this weekend
Ben Wheatley’s new J.G. Ballard adaptation continues his exploration of genre, class, comedy and violence
