Blog – Page 100 – Culture Matters

Public Art and Public Image in the World of the Spectacle

13 September 2018 / 313

Mike Templeton looks at the urban murals in Cincinnati, and argues that as the community of labour and co-operation has been destroyed by capitalism, so has the... Continue reading

Mike Templeton

Films

Black 47

12 September 2018 / 405

Luke Callinan reviews Black 47, a film which reminds us of the brutal and inhuman nature of colonisation. Lance Daly’s Black 47, which was released in September 2018,... Continue reading

Luke Callinan

Music

He sang on behalf of the people: Victor Jara, 1932-1973

10 September 2018 / 443

Jenny Farrell memorialises Victor Jara. Forty-five years ago, on 11 September 1973, the Chilean military under the command of General Pinochet and backed by the USA, overthrew... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Kipling Buildings

10 September 2018 / 308

Kipling Buildings With some debt to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ by Alan Morrison If you can keep your head when all about youAre spy cameras, a deliberate delayOf... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Music

Barnstormer 1649 – Restoration Tragedy

5 September 2018 / 410

Chris Guiton reviews the new CD by Barnstormer 1649. Restoration Tragedy, the great new album by Attila the Stockbroker’s band, Barnstormer 1649, centres on the events of... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Eating & Drinking

A drinking culture for the many, not the few: the importance of beer and pubs

1 September 2018 / 337

Keith Flett offers some ideas on how a socialist Labour government could improve our drinking culture. In the stimulating essay on Culture for the Many, not the Few:... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Religion

Other articles in this section of Culture Matters have dealt with the revolutionary strands and meanings, often deeply buried, in various religions. Here, Sean Ledwith reviews Terry... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Visual Arts

Al Nakba: Disaster

20 August 2018 / 302

Adam Shehada introduces one of his artworks. This drawing is called Al Nakba, which is the Arabic for Disaster. I drew it from a photograph, using pencil... Continue reading

Adam Shehada

Theatre

The Political History of Smack and Crack: thrills, spills and the need for revolution

19 August 2018 / 354

Ed Edwards contributes an essay on the political background to his brilliant new play, after a short review by Mike Quille. The Review: An outstanding dramatisation of... Continue reading

Ed Edwards

Films

In the Fade

19 August 2018 / 319

Jenny Farrell reviews a new German film about the rise of fascism in Germany. Winner of the Golden Globe for best foreign language film, In the Fade... Continue reading