Old Words #4, ‘The Art of Uncertainty’ (2010)
This month’s Old Words are unusual, since they don’t get around to the arts until the last quester of the
Thinking about culture as if people mattered
This month’s Old Words are unusual, since they don’t get around to the arts until the last quester of the
‘I want to change, but not if it means changing,’ a patient once said to me in complete innocence. This
It was my younger son, who’s a digital native, who persuaded me it was a bad idea. I’d been watching
It’s a widely held idea that art is dangerous—or at least challenging. It threatens established thinking, especially the complacency of
Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post
In Flanders (Belgium) there has been much recent debate about cultural governance. The central issues are about the best models
Three months ago, I agreed to make a ‘digital postcard’ for the engage conference, which takes place in Cardiff today
As the crisis sapping the Western economies continues, the division between those who get it and those who don’t becomes
A meeting of cultural researchers was held in Lefkosia (Nicosia) this week, under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of
It’s nearly five years since bank defaults burst the neoliberal economic bubble and the world – or at least the