Other People’s Books: some recommendations
Over past year or two, I’ve had a series of conversations with people about books they’ve been working on. Some
Tag: practice
Power, promises and participatory arts
Circuit is a four year programme, led by Tate and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, that aims to connect young people
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
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
How to be an artist
‘I don’t care if you call my work journalism or art or whatever; whatever you want to call it is
Friendly Interest
For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people
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
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
Artists teaching art
Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post
Parliament of Dreams 