Maybe a niche question but I’m looking for a community focused on arts and culture around the world rather than sharing your own work.
I can easily find it somewhere like The Guardian, but I was hoping there was something in the fediverse or forum based for discourse.
Any ideas?
Arts and culture is a very broad topic area. It covers (among other things):
Mastodon has several instances focussed on different aspects of arts & culture, eg:
Different lemmy and kbin instances have various arts & culture communities (some are reasonably active, some aren’t). You can use community/magazine search tools to find ones to your liking.
Eg to search for theatre related communities you could use:
Note that due to the way the fediverse works, these search aggregators aren’t necessarily comprehensive. So it’s worth spreading your search over several tools.