Blog – Page 117 – Culture Matters

The struggle never ends

21 February 2017 / 413

Like all artists, musicians enhance the quality of our lives, and expand the cultural commons which we need as much as the air we breathe. Chris Wood... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Visual Arts

All Power to the Ideals!

21 February 2017 / 339

What kind of cultural celebration, Mark Perryman asks, do the art and the politics of the Russian Revolution deserve? A century ago, on 23rd February 1917, Russian... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Visual Arts

The world was theirs to win: revolutionary Russian art at the Royal Academy

19 February 2017 / 391

Phil Brett enjoys the art at the RA exhibition, but not the simplistic and misleading commentary. Remember the fuss over the art of Hans Holbein the Younger... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Cultural Commentary

The cultural commons belongs to all of us

30 January 2017 / 370

Chris Guiton analyses and discusses the importance of the concept of the cultural commons. In the 21st century we are witnessing the rapid encroachment by capitalism on... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Cultural Commentary

Bread, roses and the cultural commons

30 January 2017 / 352

‘The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too’ said the aptly named Rose Schneiderman early in the last century. She was right, we all... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Visual Arts

Art of Solidarity

29 January 2017 / 308

Len Phelan reviews the Art of Solidarity. It’s hard to think of a more appropriate venue for Art of Solidarity, a marvellous exhibition of Cuban posters supporting... Continue reading

Len Phelan

Theatre

The Theatre of the Oppressed

28 January 2017 / 344

Sophie Coudray introduces Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. This paper aims to clarify the original project of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, which is a... Continue reading

Sophie Coudray

Visual Arts

Profit and Loss: a drawing by Owen McGuigan

28 January 2017 / 364

David Betteridge introduces a drawing from Owen McGuigan which ‘takes a line for a walk’; and a song on the same theme of shipbuilding on Clydeside. Watching... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

A Coverlet of Green: In Memoriam John Berger

18 January 2017 / 368

A COVERLETOF GREEN by David Betteridge The bare and barren treecan be made green again…– Antonio Gramsci ¶ A boy cried.His bedside cup,brimful with milkbefore he slept,... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Like Mother by Nadia Drews Settle down, bottom set, poor concentration, what do you expect?Failed tests, predictable results, staying behindred linesLife viewed through windows in the sticks... Continue reading

Nadia Drews

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