Francois Matarasso

‘The spirit is gone’

Every month for almost 20 years, a memo about cultural policy and administration has been sent by email from

My father and grandfather survived the Shoah, thanks to the Greek resistance. My grandmother survived because she was Christian. Thousands,

Returning to Britain yesterday after two weeks in a distant country, I felt grateful to be home, and to feel

Georgina Barney is captivated by farming, in theory, art and practice. Today she publishes GB Farming: An Island Journey, a book

‘If education does not strengthen us, if it does not reveal us our vocation, our inner voice, and if it

A text written for a workshop under the title ‘Beyond Us versus Them: The Role of Culture in a Divided Europe‘

Courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg was the venue for the post-war trials of Nazi leaders, so

Last year I spent some time looking at the work of Tandem, a partnership between the European Cultural Foundation and MitOst

Introduction Last week, I participated in a round table discussion organised by the Cultural Value Scoping Project at Tate Modern.

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A number of today’s papers have carried parts of, or references to, Angela Merkel’s new year…