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The corruption of art and culture by corporate capital

18 May 2017 / 280

Mike Quille traces the links between corporate sponsorship and the distortion of history and art, in two recent exhibitions. How do the ruling classes manipulate art and... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Cultural Commentary

‘Culture is not a luxury!’: the Proletkult in revolutionary Russia

26 April 2017 / 374

Lynn Mally tells the story of Proletkult, the experimental Soviet artistic institution which was in the vanguard of Russia’s cultural revolution in 1917. Two years after the... Continue reading

Lynn Mally

Cultural Commentary

The cultural commons belongs to all of us

30 January 2017 / 330

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 / 309

‘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

Cultural Commentary

Decoding the Culture of Capitalism

12 December 2016 / 330

Nick Wright reviews Neoliberal Culture, edited by Jeremy Gilbert, a challenging collection of essays which exposes the ideological and cultural project behind neoliberalism. Capitalist realism is a... Continue reading

Nick Wright

Cultural Commentary

Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship

12 December 2016 / 348

Nick Wright reviews Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship, by Erdmut Wizisla. The diverse appropriations of Walter Benjamin – the cultural theorist and critic — of his... Continue reading

Nick Wright

Cultural Commentary

Consume and create: the cultural policy of the Cuban Revolution

8 November 2016 / 338

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt traces the contours of cultural policy in Cuba since the Revolution. On 26 July 1953, a group of young Cubans attacked two of the army... Continue reading

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt

Cultural Commentary

Placing the art of the people at the heart of our public life

5 October 2016 / 299

Andrew Warburton continues his series on arts policy by interviewing Dr. Ben Walmsley, professor of audience engagement at Leeds University. Socialist policies for arts and culture are... Continue reading

Andrew Warburton

500 years of being unrealistic

28 September 2016 / 264

500 years after the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia, and days after Jeremy Corbyn’s election victory, Professor John Storey explains how utopian thinking seeks to place hope, optimism... Continue reading

John Storey

Arts and culture policies and socialism

28 September 2016 / 466

With six years of Tory austerity behind us, Brexit on the horizon and the left-wing reorientation of the Labour Party ongoing, Culture Matters is starting a debate... Continue reading

Andrew Warburton

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