europe – François Matarasso

A question of identity

Like most people with a mixed heritage, I expect, I’ve had to think a good deal about identity—my own and

In the fourth episode of our monthly podcast Arlene Goldbard and I talk about how community art is funded in

A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed

Yesterday I was asked why I accept the result of the 2016 referendum in which a majority of English and

Yesterday, Canada’s Parliament was attacked by an armed man. Twenty years ago, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin was awarded an Honorary

Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You

I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. Leonard Cohen, The Future, (1993) From the street corner where Gavrilo

It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before

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

There’s has been a great increase in cultural policy data, research and commentary in recent years, reflecting culture’s greater importance in the