A time of endings
This morning’s news bulletin led with the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, so I’ve deleted my account. I’d kept
Category: For itself
‘The MIAAW Monthly’, a cultural democracy email
For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing a podcast with Arlene Goldbard, in which we talk with like-minded
Access ≠ Democracy
When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we
The best of us
When I was young, I often heard it said that if Shakespeare were alive, he’d be writing for TV. Today,
Will someone in government please take responsibility?
On my websites, and Twitter, I try to share stories about community art that are honest, but encouraging. Fortunately, the
Feelings are not reality
On his appointment to the US Supreme Court in 1939 Justice William O. Douglas was told by the then Chief Justice, Charles Evans
Let’s make bus travel free!
The most disheartening thing about politics today is the lack of ideas about how to make people’s lives better. That’s
Burning bridges
The latest spasm of anti-French hostility, provoked by border delays at Dover over the weekend, is so depressing because it’s
Can you teach community art?
TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel
Building with humanism
It has been a quiet joy to spend so much time in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s facilities in the past
François Matarasso 