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
Category: Thinking
The importance of community, Part 2
It’s a rare thing, but I have been in a cinema when the audience has applauded as the credits roll.
The Importance of Community, Part 1
It’s been almost two months since the last post on this site, a silence that may be accounted for by
A Citizens’ Assembly on Culture
[Everyone] has something to say about how they experience culture and what they now expect of it. There is an
Clinging on in a tsunami: the arts and mental health
Since the beginning of 2020, the Baring Foundation has focused its arts support on the needs of people with metal
Memory becomes history.
Can there be anything left to say about the Shoah? Surely every story has been heard, every angle covered, every
What do you do with £1.57 billion for culture?
It took a while, and a lot of concerted pressure, but the British government has decided not to be remembered
Glacial advances
The dreadful killing of George Floyd has further consciousness of Black Lives Matter as an idea, a movement and an
‘Don’t be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice’ (Sydney Smith)
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post called ‘Right now, kindness might be more important than creativity’. I regretted the
Untold losses
History is what happened. Historians interpret – yesterday’s hero, recast as today’s pariah – but they can only work with what is
