{"id":534228,"date":"2026-07-05T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:17:31","slug":"nicholas-serota-the-arts-are-part-of-all-our-lives-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534228\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Serota: \u2018The arts are part of all our lives. It\u2019&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">We walk on to the Millennium Bridge, looking towards St Paul\u2019s. Tate Modern is behind us. \u201cThe humanities, the understanding of music, drama, art are things that stay with you for your whole life,\u201d Serota continues. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about knowledge \u2013 it\u2019s about experience and understanding and feeling. There\u2019s a lot of talk about the fact that you know we need people to be proficient in Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths] subjects, because that\u2019s our future. Actually, our present is that we\u2019re world-renowned in the arts. Wherever you go across Europe and America, people are clamouring for British artists, British performers. It\u2019s a great success story, so we should be backing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We walk on to the Millennium Bridge, looking towards St Paul\u2019s. Tate Modern is behind us. \u201cThe humanities,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2273,307,304,305,306,269,308,93,61,1694,60,4540,227154],"class_list":["post-534228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-interviews","tag-ireland","tag-museums","tag-the-observer-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}