Film
Branding Culture
The idea that one city can have more culture oozing from it's Central Park than anywhere else has been fueling…
Cultural Places: For a new demographic
"'New demographic' is a term blissfully unknown in the academic literature; Google Scholar, the standard source, contains not a single…
Art in the aftermath
In the aftermath of terrible disaster, art and artists often play a role in providing relief for trauma victims and…
Honorific!
Next year French President Jacques Chirac will most likely exit the presidential office for good. He will be remembered, he…
Fostering trust through culture
In a world of raging ideologies, cultural misapprehensions and seemingly endless warfare, The Pakistan Cultural Society’s (PCS) Muslim Arts Festival…
Cultural icons - what happens when they're gone?
Cultural icons are mortal like the rest of us, but who ought to decide what happens to their legacy after…
Creative innovation for the art smart
Creative Innovation has been touted as the key to advancing the Arts in Britain. In the last decade the Creative…
Quiet please...
In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to…
Artists with borders
After September 11 and the ensuing ‘war on terror’, the United States and many of its Western allies went into…
To have and to have not
One of the current buzzwords in the cultural world centres around the notion of a rising “Pro-Am class, aka the…