François Matarasso

A conversation about public employment programmes and the arts

During the summer, Arlene Goldbard and I have been talking regularly about shared concerns, including the catastrophic effect of the

It’s a rare thing, but I have been in a cinema when the audience has applauded as the credits roll.

It’s been almost two months since the last post on this site, a silence that may be accounted for by

[Everyone] has something to say about how they experience culture and what they now expect of it. There is an

Since the beginning of 2020, the Baring Foundation has focused its arts support on the needs of people with metal

Can there be anything left to say about the Shoah? Surely every story has been heard, every angle covered, every

It took a while, and a lot of concerted pressure, but the British government has decided not to be remembered

The dreadful killing of George Floyd has further consciousness of Black Lives Matter as an idea, a movement and an

Several weeks ago, I wrote a post called ‘Right now, kindness might be more important than creativity’. I regretted the

History is what happened. Historians interpret – yesterday’s hero, recast as today’s pariah – but they can only work with what is