measuring cultural value – François Matarasso

The wrong question

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

There’s a lot of interest at the moment in the value of culture and cultural value (not the same thing),

‘What are you going to do, then?’ I asked. ‘To smoke,’ he answered. ‘It is quite a three pipe problem,

‘We all began with the best of intentions, and then ran slap into reality. Very quickly, it was evident that

The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then

There’s a good post under this title at the Wellcome Trust blog—thanks Chris Fremantle—describing some of the ways that art

On the face of it, it’s an odd question. After all, we know what a baker, a dentist or a

It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it It had been a wonderful performance, the culmination

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