Culture’s corporate shacklers

  Angel Dahouk on why ‘philanthrocapitalism’ is strangling access to the arts and fuelling elitism   At the State of Continue reading →

In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies

by Anna Chen In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies, I revisit the Chinese Cultural Revolution model operas that I first heard Continue reading →

Christine Lindey on Bauhaus: Art As Life

A new Bauhaus exhibition would have more of an impact with fewer exhibits and more background on the movement’s audacious Continue reading →

Obituary: Martin Jenkinson 1947-2012

by Peter Lazenby citing in the Morning Star  Freelance photographer Martin Jenkinson, who has died at the age of 64, Continue reading →

Jose Saramago Foundation opens Lisbon HQ

Lisbon, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) Jose Saramago Foundation, established in 2009 after the death of this Portuguese writer, inaugurated today Continue reading →

Dick Gaughan on song and the working class movement

Dick Gaughan – famous Scottish guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. Known and loved as a singer & writer of Continue reading →