Art and activism for climate action. Commons image. By Adam Page The first time that I understood revolution was theatre and really understood it in... Continue reading
Welcome to Culture Matters
You’ll find recent articles and poems on this Home page. All our other material can be found under the relevant topic sections in the Arts, Culture and Books Hubs. Everything on Culture Matters has been contributed freely. We are a registered co-operative, rooted in the labour movement, set up to promote cultural democracy.
If you would like to help with this work, please visit our Support page. You’re also welcome to contribute articles, essays, poems and artworks to info@culturematters.org.uk. We hope you enjoy browsing the site, and that you find it entertaining, enlightening and inspiring.
Culture Matters!
Arts Hub Latest
Direct Action as Performance Art: The Theatrical and Aesthetic Dimensions of Protest Movements
Art and activism for climate action. Commons image. By Adam Page The first time that I understood revolution was theatre and really understood it in that lizard…
THE BOOK COLLECTORS OF GAZA
By Jim Aitken Omar Hamad grew up loving fairy tales.They took him into other worlds and laterhe would go on to read ‘The Brothers Karamazov.’ Books, like…
A Tribute to James ‘Shem’ O’Brien (1958-2026)
Culture Matters would like to pay tribute to one of our finest poets, James O’Brien, who passed away on 30th September. As well as featuring James in…
Two poems by Richard Dulgheriu: Resentment / Old Boots
By Richard Dulgheriu Resentment I don’t rememberwhen I became angry.That’s the problem.There was no morningwhen I woke upand decidedto hate the world a little.It happened quietly.A little…
Culture Hub Latest
The far-right, culture and the working class: what is to be done?
Image by Scott Alsworth By Deirdre O’Neill The far right is winning the battle of ideas almost everywhere. How do we explain this contradiction? Why are the…
How does America’s virulent, violent capitalist empire mould its people? Review of the Netflix adaptation of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’
Mike Faist as Charles Trask, Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask and Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames. Photograph: Netflix By Dennis Broe East of Eden, the Netflix series…
Hyperreality: When Neoliberal Fantasy Replaces Reality
Hyperreality by Keiichi Matsuda By Stuart Cartland Jean Baudrillard explored the concept of hyperreality in the 1980s, describing a condition in which reality and its representations become…
Gone for a Burton
By Keith Flett Carlsberg Britvic the global lager and soft drinks company has announced a plan to exit from brewing in the historic location of Burton. 310…
Latest Books
Popular Articles
By Jim Aitken Omar Hamad grew up loving fairy tales.They took him into other worlds and laterhe would go on to read ‘The Brothers Karamazov.’... Continue reading
Culture Matters would like to pay tribute to one of our finest poets, James O’Brien, who passed away on 30th September. As well as featuring... Continue reading
By Richard Dulgheriu Resentment I don’t rememberwhen I became angry.That’s the problem.There was no morningwhen I woke upand decidedto hate the world a little.It happened... Continue reading
The Land of Youth, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1546 By Gregor Gall In 1987, as a student seeing indie bands play live in Aberdeen,... Continue reading
Image by Scott Alsworth By Deirdre O’Neill The far right is winning the battle of ideas almost everywhere. How do we explain this contradiction? Why... Continue reading
Paul Marshall, owner of The Spectator, Unherd and GB News. Commons image. By Nick Moss I read Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph,Saying Perhaps you’ve seen... Continue reading
Policeman Victor Jones carries injured surivor of the Aberfan disaster Susan Maybank, 21 October 1966. Commons image By Mike Jenkins Kids d’ see thin’s like.Ee... Continue reading
Mike Faist as Charles Trask, Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask and Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames. Photograph: Netflix By Dennis Broe East of Eden, the... Continue reading
Photo © Tate (Lucy Green) By Nick Moss It would be naive to expect an exhibition subtitled Art and Fashion, curated by ex-Vogue and i-D... Continue reading