Blog – Page 90 – Culture Matters

Theatre for the many, not the few

26 August 2019 / 371

Sam Swann discusses how theatre is owned, funded and influenced by elites, and calls for a far more challenging, radical and diverse theatre Most theatres have fundraising... Continue reading

Sam Swann

Architecture

Class and Culture in Los Angeles: Fear and Loathing in the City of the Angels

19 August 2019 / 478

Dennis Broe excavates the contradictions of class and culture in the architecture, art and culture of Los Angeles Race is the way class is spoken in America,... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Fiction

Gone Underground: imagining revolution in Britain

5 August 2019 / 325

Phil Brett has just published Gone Underground, the second of his Pete Kalder novels. It’s a crime novel, set in a future revolutionary Britain, and here he explains... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Books

Robots Have No Bones

5 August 2019 / 376

£10 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-14-0 Robots Have No Bones is Fred Voss’s follow-up collection to The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Science & Technology

What belongs to us all: the moon landings, July 1969

5 August 2019 / 373

Chris Guiton discussses the politics of the moon landing in 1969 The first moon landing took place on 20 July 1969. The 50th anniversary of this incredible... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Poetry

Peterloo: the socialist poetry of Shelley, Brecht and Kinsella

26 July 2019 / 415

In the run-up to the anniversary of Peterloo, Jenny Farrell discusses political poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Kinsella On 16 August 1819, tens... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Who is Bertolt Brecht? and Why We Should Care in our Dark Times

18 July 2019 / 403

Anthony Squiers outlines the contemporary relevance of Brecht, especially for artists who seek to produce meaningful works of art in our own dark times. On February 27, 1933... Continue reading

Anthony Squiers

Sport

What do they know of cricket, that only cricket know?

17 July 2019 / 365

Mark Perryman criticises the exclusive way some sports are managed, and suggests some progressive policies to bring out all the benefits of sport – for the many, not the... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Visual Arts

‘I am a human and I will be seen’: the anti-imperialist power of the photographic image

12 July 2019 / 368

Kate Potts introduces an extract from Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, the new book from Autograph ABP director Mark Sealy, published by Lawrence and Wishart This... Continue reading

Kate Potts

Visual Arts

A History of the Many, not the Few

9 July 2019 / 360

Michal Boncza reviews The Many Not the Few, by Sean Michael Wilson and Robert Brown AT THE launch of this timely graphic “history of Britain shaped by the... Continue reading

Michal Boncza

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