authority – François Matarasso

Power, promises and participatory arts

Circuit is a four year programme, led by Tate and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, that aims to connect young people

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

I’ve been made blue, I’ve been lied to When will I be loved? I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed

An experiment in brevity: I have had this question in my mind for a little while.

One lovely evening this summer, I stood waiting in the lobby of the Market Theatre in the Herefordshire town of

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

The speech of women There is a paradox, acknowledged by the speaker herself, in a woman giving a lecture about

At Seville Cathedral today, my breath was taken away by the power of a building designed, made and decorated by

It was my younger son, who’s a digital native, who persuaded me it was a bad idea. I’d been watching

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