Thinking – François Matarasso

Friendship and the community artist

When I talk about community art practice with younger or less experienced artists, I often warn against offering friendship to

I wander through Twitter’s alleyways like a refugee from another land. It’s vivid, disorientating, and full of drama; shouting behind

This essay is a slightly revised version of a chapter in Where We Dream, West Bromwich Operatic Society and the

Elections simplify. The complex realities of millions of lives, events and forces are channelled into simple choices. In France that

‘Why don’t you consider what the author is trying to do, instead of criticising him for not meeting your expectations?’

Read this book. It is probably the most important book about art that will be published this year. Or about

Last night, Arlene Goldbard and I recorded the next episode of our blog, ‘A Culture of Possibility’. Our guest was Lucy Wright, an

After 40 years working in the cultural sector, I have reached the point of being all but unemployable, except perhaps

Last Friday evening, in the Liceu audience in Barcelona, I listened to a single cellist play a mournful melody from

Yesterday, I wrote a short post on the physical effects of grief, only to set it aside. I’ve written little