‘Cidade’, Terratreme
The Portuguese edition of A Restless Art will be published on 9 May 2019, and we are making final corrections
Category: History
Questions I can’t answer
It’s messy, difficult, compromised—but at its best community art can be joyously emancipatory. It shows us that we will only find pathways to a better place if we work together. We need each other. And we need to keep asking questions we can’t answer.
Chór POLIN
The POLIN Choir is an ambitious and sustained initiative to develop the relationship between a new museum and the community in which it stands.
Valleys Kids
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
A brief observation on aerosols
Sometimes you miss the obvious thing, even when you’ve been looking at it for years. Yesterday, as I walked along
An elegy for ‘The Public’
I only saw The Public from a distance, from the other side of the Midlands, but I liked what I
Cultural democracy and the European Parliament
Today, I got to speak at the European Parliament, at a conference organised by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists &
Is there a community arts movement once more?
ICAF (the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam) has just published a photo book of the 2017 edition, and an
One for the historians
In my view community arts must still be regarded as an experiment—an experiment in ‘cultural democracy’ of great importance not
Relieved of duty
Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason
