resistance – François Matarasso

‘If not pure, then at least useful.’

Read this book. It is probably the most important book about art that will be published this year. Or about

Over past year or two, I’ve had a series of conversations with people about books they’ve been working on. Some

You see them sometimes, late at night, cleaning offices for people they never meet; or unloading vans from empty bus

It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I’ve never been convinced. Human beings are not

Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of

In Finland when a lot of people start complaining they might be called a ‘valituskuoro’, or a Complaints Choir. Two

Yesterday, Canada’s Parliament was attacked by an armed man. Twenty years ago, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin was awarded an Honorary

Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You

An experiment in brevity: I have had this question in my mind for a little while.

I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. Leonard Cohen, The Future, (1993) From the street corner where Gavrilo