art – François Matarasso

Georgina Barney – An Artist on Farming

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

Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of

I do not believe in Belief. But this is an age of faith, where one is surrounded by so many

Greer: And no matter what he confesses to, the narrator is always invulnerable. Levi: Because he is in

I was thinking about you guys yesterday. I’ve been here three times before and I think I understand a little

Saying what’s on your mind The simple, but consistent idea behind this blog (and all my work) is that everyone

I don’t know when people started asking whether the things in art galleries were actually works of art—sometime between the

Why does art not reliably improve people? After all, the argument that it has transcendent, even spiritual value has been

A baking July afternoon in Lincolnshire. Everything feels flattened under the heat: sheep, crops, fields. The houses I pass are

Forgotten empire The almost complete absence of imperialism and particularly of colonialism from British public discourse has always struck me