Celebrating its 40th birthday this year, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is going from strength to strength. Today’s 500-acre site once belonged to the aristocratic Wentworth family. They fought… Read More »From private parkland to people’s playground
As a Londoner, this week’s attack at Westminster came close to home. Like countless others, I have walked over Westminster Bridge and around the Houses of… Read More »Responding to acts of terror
Legendary jazz musician, composer and poet Joe McPhee visited London earlier this month. He played with Rodrigo Amado, Chris Corsano, Kent Kessler at Cafe Oto… Read More »Dark Matters
This year offers an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of artists in response to the 1917 Russian Revolution and many were looking forward to the Royal Academy’s show in London as part of a year-long series of events to mark the centenary.
For the £18 admission fee, visitors could expect some understanding of why artists felt liberated and became pioneers of new movements which changed the nature of artistic production forever.Read More »Revolutionary art lost in skewed history
“Your profit – Our trauma” – a slogan that sums up the violent effects of gentrification through “Creative City” strategies – featured right at the… Read More »Democracy takes on neoliberalism at Glasgow conference
Finding ways to create real democracy in place of cuts and corporate agendas was at the heart of discussions at Croydon’s Ruskin House on Saturday… Read More »Croydon community building a People’s Plan
Most eyes have been on the Trump victory – but while we speculate about what it means, authoritarian rule is quietly being established just across… Read More »State of emergency + Big Brother = What?
If there’s one artist who brought religious art down to earth to express spiritual torment and revelation in a way that 400 years later still… Read More »The man who brought painting down to earth
From being declared one of the 100 most endangered sites in the world in 2005, the historic non-Catholic cemetery in Rome has been restored thanks… Read More »Friends re-united in a Roman cemetery
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s curators have created a seemingly infinite, multi-faceted immersion into the sounds and sights of the late 1960s which saw a… Read More »You say you want a revolution?
And so, it seems, the British brand of turkey has grown tired of voting for Christmas! Battered by the Tory brand of Austerities, betrayed by… Read More »A shot across the bows of global capital – Frank Hayes
The meeting opened with a moment’s silence to reflect on the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox earlier in the day. Participants from Glasgow, Wigan, York,… Read More »Democracy & the EU referendum – 16 June webinar