Culture
Eight women well worth meeting
“Parallel Lives” is an unsung gem of an exhibition
Art does not exist to improve society
We should resist the cultural reductionism of the modern “creative industries”
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Against ideas
We have too many of them and they are not doing any good
What happened to the working class intellectual
Young people are not being encouraged or inspired
The cathedral and the museum
With declining attendances and a neglect of their core mission, churches and art galleries have much in common
Why do we persist with Opera?
Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it
Against pop culture populism
The phoney courage of disdaining classical music
The culture war has become the culture
On the discourse and the subject