policy – François Matarasso

The Pinning Stones

Portraits from The Pinning Stones by Ray Smith On Thursday, the residents of Scotland decide whether to leave the United Kingdom

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

‘I want to change, but not if it means changing,’ a patient once said to me in complete innocence. This

State funding of culture is a very tricky thing to do in a democracy. Patrons, sponsors, customers just buy what

For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people

It’s a widely held idea that art is dangerous—or at least challenging. It threatens established thinking, especially the complacency of

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

It’s been hard to escape the Glastonbury Festival in the past couple of weeks and clearly many people had no

Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the English text of a chapter I contributed to a book on

Next week, I will be in Sarajevo for a conference to mark the end of the Swiss Cultural Programme in