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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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  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Could music win it for Kamala Harris?

    The would-be president’s musical passions seem to have struck a chord with voters

    A woman in a navy trouser suit standing on a city pavement holding up a vinyl record album with the title ‘Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong’ in a polythene cover
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Artist Michael Craig-Martin: ‘My big moment is now’

    One of British art’s most influential figures on YBAs, passion versus money and the ‘miracle’ of having a major new show at 82

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Flora Yukhnovich is reimagining the Rococo at the Wallace Collection

    The painter’s contemporary take on the late Baroque hangs alongside masterpieces by François Boucher

    A woman wearing a white blouse and black trousers standing in front of a large multi-coloured abstract painting with a gold-coloured frame. Beneath is a black and gold ornate sideboard with gold-coloured ornaments on top. There are also ornate gold-coloured columns nearby
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Beyond boycotts at the Venice Biennale

    This week’s responses to the Israel-Hamas war remind us that art is rarely apolitical

    People in coats stand outside a modern building with a white facade and the word ‘Israel’ above their heads. In the shop window, a notice reads: ‘The artists and curators of the Israeli pavilion will open the exhibition when a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached’
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Vivien Duffield: ‘At Tate we never got the garden right’

    To celebrate 60 years of the family foundation, the philanthropist is embarking on a project to green the gallery’s frontage

    Older woman with blonde hair wearing black jumper and brightly coloured scarf
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits: ‘Art can help’

    The Dutch museum chief on the challenges of restitution and the importance of teaching the young not to be afraid

    A headshot drawing of Taco Dibbits
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Philanthropist Frédéric Jousset is improving access to art — by land and by sea

    The entrepreneur’s projects include trucks that tour paintings around the UK and France, and now an ‘art boat’

    A bearded wavy-haired middle-age man wearing a black top over a white shirt stands in front of bookshelves
  • Monday, 11 March, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterThe hottest hotels in Madrid
    Together in eclectic dreams: Bless Hotel Madrid

    Lose yourself in a maximalist swirl complete with a resort-style rooftop and life-size bronze rhino

    The rooftop pool at Madrid’s Bless Hotel, looking over the skyline
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast21 min listen
    Culture chat: Is ‘Poor Things’ a feminist film?

    We discuss Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film featuring Emma Stone, with arts editor Jan Dalley and HTSI editor Jo Ellison

  • Monday, 25 December, 2023
    Arts
    Films, theatre, art and music to look forward to in 2024

    From a vision of civil war in a near-future US to a Van Gogh blockbuster and the Stones rolling on . . .

    An actor dressed as Mickey Mouse stands with a marching band performing in front of the Enchanted Storybook Castle at Walt Disney Co.’s Shanghai Disneyland theme park
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    Person in the News
    Indhu Rubasingham: the National Theatre’s new artistic director takes centre stage

    The first woman to occupy the role is taking over at a time of straitened finances and new digital priorities

    Joe Cummings illustration of Indhu Rubasingham
  • 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
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