Matthew Cain

Orange Prize co-founder Kate Mosse tells Channel 4 News the award “still matters” in a publishing world dominated by men, as the six nominees read extracts from their books.

The poet laureate says the decision to cut all public funding to the Poetry Book Society is disastrous. But are these traditional institutions still neccessary or is the art simply evolving?

Pop star Cheryl Cole has been dropped from the US version of the hit TV show X Factor, it has been confirmed. Channel 4 News culture editor Matthew Cain looks at the reasons behind her exit.

As an exhibition opens celebrating the role of Jewish people in British entertainment, Matthew Cain asks why it is so important for Jews to explore their culture through the arts.

Culture Editor Matthew Cain on the unprecedented shop window the royal nuptials offer to British designers hoping to impress the estimated two billion tuning in for the Royal Wedding.

As the royal wedding approaches Matthew Cain asks what has happened to satirical art targeting the royal family.

Artist Ben Johnson is creating live art at London’s National Gallery as a way of shedding new light on the gallery’s permanent collection of paintings.

What will winning mean for the artist awarded the Turner Prize 2010 live on Channel 4 tonight? And, asks Culture Editor Matthew Cain, what will be the impact on art in general?

Sound artist Susan Philipsz, whose melancholy song loops were first exhibited in secret riverside walkways in Glasgow, wins Britain’s most esteemed and controversial modern art award.

Take That are odds-on favourites to top the Christmas album chart with their first album as a five piece for 15 years. Culture Editor Matthew Cain speaks exclusively to the group’s former manager.

Despite being completely deaf, actor Jacob Casselden is taking a leading role in a new play, Tribes, opening in London, as Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain found out.

As two new modern art exhitions prepare to open in London and Nottingham, our Culture Editor, Matthew Cain, asks which is likely to come out on top.

There’s something about Sondheim, writes our Culture Editor, Matthew Cain. Sondheim has been visiting Britain as part of his 80th birthday celebrations – and he spoke to Channel 4 News.

Think of LS Lowry and you’ll probably think of grimy urban scenes in the North of England featuring mills populated by his signature matchstick men and women. But now it might be time to think again.

Their controversial deportation from France angered the EU – but here stories about Romany Gypsies are having an increasing cultural influence, writes our Culture Editor, Matthew Cain.