Does the UK government care about culture?

The year in art anniversaries ͏‌        A New Year's resolution you'll want to keep - subscribe and get six months for half price     Jane Morris asks if the UK government understands the value of art Predictions of a Labour victory were greeted with cautious optimism by many in the art market in the run-up to the 2024 general election – if only because Labour weren't their predecessors. The Conservatives presided over 14 years of austerity, Brexit and 12 culture secretaries, some of whom were in post for less than a year. There was also a sense that Labour was saying the right things. 'Getting a better deal for creative people with the European Union, getting education right and celebrating what the creative industries do for our economy is a priority,' Thangam Debbonaire, then shadow secretary of state for culture, told the Art Business Conference the autumn before. 'But I also want people to feel joy again in our country: the joy [of the fact] that we are an amazing place for creative talent.'   Read the full article       Samuel Reilly rounds up the year in art anniversaries Constable's bumper birthday celebration, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Constantin Brâncuși and the Marilyn Monroe centenary are just a few of the milestones to be marked in 2026   Read the full article       Robert Barry on the short films that launched Jonathan Glazer's career Jonathan Glazer recalls walking into the offices of Academy Films one day in the mid '90s, showreel in hand. 'Forget all that,' producer Nick Morris told him after viewing the reel of short film clips. 'What's your voice?' Writing in his brief foreword to the book Short Form, about the history of the London production company, Glazer claims that from that point on, everything he's done – from music videos for Massive Attack and Radiohead to award-winning ads for Guinness and Stella Artois right up to groundbreaking feature films such as Under the Skin (2013) and The Zone of Interest (2023) – has been made with that question in mind: 'What's your voice?'   Read the full article       Gillian Darley asks if 'heritage at risk' lists have got out of hand The risk lists cover every kind of site and structure, from eye-candy follies in parkland undergrowth to oversize hulks or skeletal, obsolescent remains. Broken or neglected buildings such as Cromford Mills in Derbyshire's Derwent Valley are a feature of the landscape around Britain, and in all they run into the thousands. Architects and engineers, in practice as in education, are being cajoled into considering reuse and repurposing wherever possible, but why has this taken so long?   Read the full article       Jenny Linford on why the pomegranate oozes with symbolism Fertility, prosperity, blood, rebirth – the pomegranate is a fruit resonant of both life and death. In Greece it is a New Year's Day custom to smash a pomegranate on the doorstep to welcome prosperity and good fortune to the home, while in the Eastern Orthodox tradition pomegranate seeds are used in koliva, a memorial food for the deceased. In Armenia the pomegranate is particularly full of meaning.   Read the full article     In the current issue…     Susan Owens casts light on Joseph Wright of Derby's love of shadows There is a paradox at the heart of Joseph Wright's two greatest paintings, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a Lamp is put in the Place of the Sun (1766) and An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), thrillingly shown side-by-side in 'Wright of Derby: From the Shadows'. Their subjects, like the pictures themselves, are immense – the movements of planets around the sun and the capacity of the earth's atmosphere to support life – and yet the mood of each is strikingly intimate.   Read the full article     In the next issue…   More from Apollo Current issue | Advertise | Podcasts   View this email in your browser   Follow us Apollo Magazine, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP. All Articles and Content Copyright © 2026 by Apollo Magazine. All Rights Reserved. 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