art – Page 2 – François Matarasso

In search of gravitas

Gravitas, the heavy tread of moral earnestness, becomes a bore if it is not accompanied by the light step of

As you approach the Acropolis Museum in Athens you see the Parthenon’s reflection floating in the dark glass wall of

‘I don’t care if you call my work journalism or art or whatever; whatever you want to call it is

One of the Internet’s delights is the chance of finding, and sharing, art. I’ve always loved the elegiac tone of Paul

For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people

It has become common these days to speak of a cultural ecology. It’s a good metaphor, which accurately represents the

The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then

Documentary filmmakers have an obvious problem with everything that happened before the invention of photography. How do you make a

Last night’s piano recital in a Sheffield church highlighted once again the permeable boundaries between art and religion. The performance—which

I was driving home through the Scottish Borders—like Debatable Lands everywhere, this lovely region is used to strangers—when I passed