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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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BIZARRE: Inequality diminishes the culture sector - What They Never Told You

Yayoi Kusama’s installation You, Me and the Balloons in Manchester.
Yayoi Kusama’s installation You, Me and the Balloons in Manchester. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Your editorial highlights a problem that afflicts not just the arts but the culture sector as a whole (The Guardian view on women in art: a cycle of here today, gone tomorrow must be halted, 22 December).

Successive surveys have identified “significant inequalities” and discrimination in the sector – not only in terms of gender but also class, ethnicity, disability etc. The pandemic and cost of living crisis have deepened this imbalance. Arts and culture are in danger of becoming the preserve of white, public-school-educated men.

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