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Beyond the boundaries: A review of the Diaspora Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

29 October 2017 / 395

Phil Brett takes us on a tour of an exhibition at the Venice Biennale which explores the challenges which emigrants and immigrants face. Away from the main... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Films

The Death of Stalin

28 October 2017 / 397

Gerry Rowe is disappointed by The Death of Stalin. In Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin’s ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’, the object of satire is a thoroughly British... Continue reading

Gerry Rowe

Architecture

The Russian Revolution and Avant-Garde Architecture

28 October 2017 / 611

Jean Turner looks at the dramatic changes that took place in architecture following the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound influence this had on the development of the... Continue reading

Jean Turner

Visual Arts

Alfredo Jaar’s Garden of Good and Evil

20 October 2017 / 321

Emma Carboni introduces Alfredo Jaar’s Garden of Good and Evil, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Yorkshire Sculpture Park are presenting a major solo exhibition by pioneering Chilean... Continue reading

Emma Carboni

Visual Arts

The sinful greed of the rich: Bosch’s painting of The Haywain

19 October 2017 / 452

On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s revolt, Jenny Farrell gives us a critical appreciation of Hieronymous Bosch’s famous painting The Haywain, a coded criticism of the ruthless extortion... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Contributors to Culture Matters

17 October 2017 / 867

The editors would like to thank all the contributors for the material sent in to us. Mark Abel is a musician and a trade union activist. He... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Music

Singing for Peace and Socialism: Birmingham’s Clarion Singers

17 October 2017 / 518

Graham Stevenson reports on the recent concert. Birmingham’s Clarion Singers, 77 years young this year, recently celebrated with an Autumn Concert with a full programme of songs... Continue reading

Graham Stevenson

Cultural Commentary

What Do Marxists Have To Say About Art?

14 October 2017 / 417

Richard Clarke introduces some of the main Marxist insights into the nature and value of art, and its links to political and economic realities. Most Marxists would... Continue reading

mojohand

Poetry

Muses and Bruises

11 October 2017 / 321

Culture Matters has published a brilliant new collection of poetry called Muses and Bruises by Fran Lock, an activist, writer and illustrator, and one of the finest... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Music

Accessible, Educational, Radical: The Communist Composer Alan Bush

9 October 2017 / 320

Andy Croft reviews a new book out about the communist composer Alan Bush. The composer Alan Bush (1900-95) is usually described as a man of unresolved contradictions,... Continue reading

Andy Croft

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