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
Tag: management
Naked emperors
‘I want to change, but not if it means changing,’ a patient once said to me in complete innocence. This
Why I don’t tweet
It was my younger son, who’s a digital native, who persuaded me it was a bad idea. I’d been watching
Life is precious, not safe
It’s a widely held idea that art is dangerous—or at least challenging. It threatens established thinking, especially the complacency of
Artists teaching art
Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post
Old maps and new projections
In Flanders (Belgium) there has been much recent debate about cultural governance. The central issues are about the best models
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
Those who get it, and those who don’t
As the crisis sapping the Western economies continues, the division between those who get it and those who don’t becomes
Evidence, politicians and the value of debate
A meeting of cultural researchers was held in Lefkosia (Nicosia) this week, under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of
Culture and the crisis
It’s nearly five years since bank defaults burst the neoliberal economic bubble and the world – or at least the
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