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: politics
Dancing about migration
It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I’ve never been convinced. Human beings are not
Optimism is a valuable resource
Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of
‘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
A question
An experiment in brevity: I have had this question in my mind for a little while.
Human diversity is
I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. Leonard Cohen, The Future, (1993) From the street corner where Gavrilo
On the value of not putting things into words
It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before
Friendly Interest
For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people
The power to transform
Aquatopia, the latest of Alex Farquharson’s highly original themed exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, explores the cultural history of humanity’s
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
François Matarasso 