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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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  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Television
    TV in 2021: escape into breeches-busters and fantasy

    Adaptations of novels have provided distraction from the pandemic — and there are plenty more to come

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Visual Arts
    An epiphany with Tracey Emin

    Former detractor Jonathan Jones has written a powerful and incisive tribute to one of the bravest female artists of our time

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Life of a Song
    Love Hurts — a song recorded 60 years ago by the Everly Brothers has had a colourful afterlife

    The track has shown remarkable agility in hopping across genres and styles

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Exhibitions to see in 2021

    Great art and artists on show in the world’s best museums and galleries

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Arts
    2020 — the year of living digitally

    A look back at the world of the arts in an unprecedented pandemic climate

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: top 10 interviews from 2020
    Ahdaf Soueif: ‘I have a lot of friends in prison’

    The Egyptian novelist and activist on taking on the military government and why she resigned from the British Museum

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Jenny Saville: portrait of a feminist

    The artist on her ongoing fascination with the body, her new show at the Gagosian and being in dialogue with Michelangelo

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Damien Hirst at Newport Street Gallery: glimmers of hope amid death and decay

    The British artist puts on show of his own early work at his London gallery — with distinct contemporary echoes

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Life of a Song
    Hurricane — Bob Dylan’s howl of protest still resonates today

    The hard-hitting 1975 ballad tells the story of a black boxer framed and jailed for murder

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver — lust for life

    The painter’s most creative and flamboyant years are brilliantly captured in the final part of this landmark biography

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20201 min
    Claudia Rankine: 'Silence, segregation and inaction is no longer possible'

    Poet Claudia Rankine talks to FT arts editor Jan Dalley about her new book

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    FT SeriesArt Basel OVR:2020 and the dawn of new platforms
    Art Basel’s OVR:2020 — a window on to the present

    The fair’s latest Online Viewing Rooms are focused on works made this year

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Grayson Perry: a potter, traveller and critic

    He amuses and taunts us. Amid phallic sketchings and ceramic satire, the artist discusses the interplay between flowery stuff and a dark message

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    Visual Arts
    The spell of the studio — Atelier Picasso at Bastian gallery

    In the clutter of an artist’s workplace, can we absorb something of the creator?

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Visual Arts
    British Museum reopens to a new world order

    The institution is under ever greater scrutiny over the origins of its collections and how it presents history

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    ObituaryLuchita Hurtado
    Luchita Hurtado, artist, 1920-2020

    An indomitable talent, finally celebrated at the end of her career

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    ReviewMusic
    Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason — powerful impact

    The brilliant brother and sister duo played their first live concert since lockdown at Bold Tendencies, London

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Film
    My Rembrandt and the enduring allure of the Old Master

    A new documentary explores the special place of the Dutch painter in collectors’ hearts

  • Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
    Music
    Does live performance really matter?

    Streaming of performing arts has come to the rescue during the pandemic — but a London cultural centre believes there is nothing like being there

  • Monday, 27 July, 2020
    Music
    David Pountney creates opera to respond directly to Covid-19 crisis

    ‘A Feast in the Time of Plague’ will be performed live, in front of a live audience, in September

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Gorky Park artwork deconstructs statues and the stories they tell

    Yerbossyn Meldibekov’s ‘Transformer’ playfully skewers the former Soviet bloc’s attitude to public monuments

  • Saturday, 18 July, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Surprise in store as Anish Kapoor’s ‘reflective’ UK exhibition opens

    The Indian-born British sculptor has made waves across the world, and clearly enjoys making them

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    Visual Arts
    London’s National Gallery reopens — just follow the arrows

    The museum emerges from lockdown tomorrow to unveil a restored Room 32 and a newly acquired Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    InterviewTheatre
    Nigel Slater serves up another slice of Toast

    The chef and food writer’s touching memoir has been a film and a play — now it’s an audio drama with animation

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    Lunch with the FT
    Annie Leibovitz: ‘I’m frustrated about the word ‘celebrity’ ’

    The photographer of the famous on the power of the image — and why she still feels like an outsider

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