Asides – François Matarasso

Changing the culture

My Twitter feed glows today with pictures of cultural activities and places, as people celebrate 25 years of National Lottery

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

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the arts (and culture) being in crisis. There will be

I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now Badlands (1978) Bruce Springsteen ‘Shackled and Drawn’ During

I was in my teens when Morecambe and Wise were in their BBC glory days, each Christmas Special more keenly

Many people read the post about the problems faced by artists teaching in Further Education recently, which described the threat

Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post

The relationship between art and science has been fractious since the Enlightenment, when practices that had often been seen as

Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what

Everyone knows the usefulness of what is useful, but few know the usefulness of what is useless. Zhuangzi Human beings