Deborah Obalil

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Tess Thackara |Deborah Obalil |Daniel Grant

Universities in the US are facing a barrage of attacks from President Donald Trump’s administration, some of which could deal a death blow to smaller arts colleges and programmes around the country.

Jan 17, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Deborah Obalil |Gareth Harris |Tim Schneider

I see myself as one of the last of a British working-class generation who were taught art and art history at state school and taken on museum visits, before the massive funding cuts that have now taken root and started to seed real problems within the UK’s cultural sector. I remember—it sticks in my brain—a rare occasion on which we went on a school field trip to the Tate gallery, in London. It was the first time I saw a painting by Willem de Kooning. The effect that had on me was fundamental.