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Tag: measuring cultural value

12 December 2014 Thinking

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

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22 July 2014 Thinking

‘When will I be loved?’

I’ve been made blue, I’ve been lied to When will I be loved? I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed

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23 June 2014 Evaluation / Experiences / Thinking

Below the radar

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

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29 March 2014 Evaluation / Talks

A Three Pipe Problem (MCV8)

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

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24 March 2014 Evaluation

The value of everyday evaluation

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

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18 November 2013 Essays / Evaluation

Quality in community art (MCV7)

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

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30 October 2013 Thinking

What has art ever done for science?

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

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2 September 2013 Evaluation / Thinking

What is an artist? (MCV6)

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

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13 July 2013 Experiences / Thinking

A question of evaluation (MCV5)

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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7 July 2013 Research / Thinking

Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)

Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience…

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François Matarasso

François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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