Revolutionary architecture should inspire us to take control of the built environment, says Nathan Akehurst Six visions of futures past, resurrected by London’s Design Museum in the exhibition... Continue reading
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Tayo Aluko gives us the background to his one man show about Paul Robeson. I remember singing Deep River in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool at a... Continue reading
8th April is the 40th Anniversary of The Clash’s debut album. Mark Perryman reminds us what the 1977 punk and politics mix was all about. The birth of punk... Continue reading
John Ellison discusses Alexander Blok’s great poem The Twelve, and its links to the Russian Revolution. I came fresh, utterly fresh, to the most famous poem by... Continue reading
Alan Morrison introduces his latest poetry collection, and calls for submissions for his latest anthology of political poetry. After seven years of what might be termed the... Continue reading
Dr. Joanne Entwistle offers a foundation essay on fashion, and the everyday creative cultural activity of clothing ourselves. Not so very long ago, fashion was a rather... Continue reading
Dr Geoff Bright introduces a fascinating arts-based educational project, concerned with remembering, re-imagining and re-enacting alternative community futures in the abandoned, de-industrialised pit communities in the North... Continue reading
Carolyn Pouncy tells the story of how Russian ballet was modernised, democratised and eventually revitalised by the 1917 Russian Revolution. Ask people unfamiliar with dance history where... Continue reading
Chris Jury finds Adam Curtis’s latest film to be memorable and compelling, but also irritatingly obscure. The term “hypernormalisation” is taken from Alexei Yurchak’s 2006 book Everything... Continue reading
Christine Lindey reviews the current Royal Academy exhibition, and recommends the art – but not the didactic, vindictive and reactionary curation. In January 1918 the Russian Soviet... Continue reading
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