The groups least likely to visit a gallery can curate shows the public wants – and that directors would never dream to create, writes James Green.
Galleries have been wrestling with questions about their role in civic society for some time, but our new experience of life with Covid-19 brings even more urgency to the debate.
We are a society that is divided between those with political, economic, and cultural agency, and those without them. Recent events have been all consuming but thinking back to 2016 and the Brexit referendum vote, the most shocking thing about the outcome was how it highlighted the divisions in our society.... more
A culture strategy based on behavioural change isn’t sexy, but it is necessary if Plymouth wants to do more than simply survive, Hannah Harris writes.
Adrian Vinken shares how the two biggest developments of 2020 – Black Lives Matter and Covid-19 – have affected commemorations of a brutal story of colonisation.
Deborah and Michael Parkes say lockdown presents challenges to budding rural artists. It also gives them an abundance of two things they once lacked – connectivity and time.
Covid-19 has intensified the barriers women face to becoming leaders in the arts, writes Sacha Lee. The most marginalised will be the most important vehicle for change.