‘There’s no insurance against life’
Dementia has become the fate worse than death that haunts the imagination of Western societies. It is the price we
Tag: education
Artists teaching art
Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post
The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans
Next week, I will be in Sarajevo for a conference to mark the end of the Swiss Cultural Programme in
The mailman’s authority
‘Alert always to “Wittgenstein’s distinction between all the trivia you can talk about, and all the essentials you can’t,” Steiner
For the good of the others
‘Inform, educate and entertain’ This week, Radio 4 has been broadcasting a series of 45-minute programmes by Melvyn Bragg under the title The
Arts outreach programmes: self-development or social instruction?
On 7 November, I took part in a symposium about cultural mediation in Basel, organised by Pro Helvetia with Migros.
An even break for young artists
Three months ago, I agreed to make a ‘digital postcard’ for the engage conference, which takes place in Cardiff today
Parliament of Dreams 