Because I am involved in humankind
A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed
Thinking about culture as if people mattered
A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed
For the past 18 month or so, I have been working with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at
Can there be anything left to say about the Shoah? Surely every story has been heard, every angle covered, every
It took a while, and a lot of concerted pressure, but the British government has decided not to be remembered
The dreadful killing of George Floyd has further consciousness of Black Lives Matter as an idea, a movement and an
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post called ‘Right now, kindness might be more important than creativity’. I regretted the
History is what happened. Historians interpret – yesterday’s hero, recast as today’s pariah – but they can only work with what is
Since the start of the pandemic, I have been preoccupied by its traumatic effects. Some of the losses are obvious,
Call me naïve, but when I learned this week that the ushers working in a concert hall are on zero-hours
Honestly, how are you feeling? The adjectives that cycle through my contacts with people in the arts are increasingly consistent: tired,
My father, Robert, was born in Salonica (Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece) in 1927. His father, Isaac, was a doctor, while
Last night, Arlene Goldbard hosted our second shared conversation about community art, for which we were joined by about a hundred