What constitutes socially acceptable behaviour is often relative. Absolutes are rare. Even ‘thou shall not kill’ can be bargained, and frequently is. Is this assessment too bleak?
Tag Archives: culture
Go Where People Are
Museums are changing. Whilst collections cannot be made mobile easily, museums are on the move in a way which goes beyond buildings and collections. Find out how, and why.
Palimpsest
Explore the long history of food through a focus on the orange. Oranges today grow world wide. Yet their origins are less well known. The journey the fruit has made carries an imprint of culture, language and more. What does that history tell us?
The Lost Paintings
We live in an age of artificially forced choices. I have always held the view that cosmopolitanism is not antithetical to patriotism. Is this controversial? I don’t think so.
Natacha Atlas’s Parallel Universe
Parallel Universe, Vol 1 is the kind of album Massive Attack might have wished to make with Atlas and Bishai, except that Atlas and Bishai got there first. There are layers and depths to dive into here.
Ai Weiwei’s ‘Ton of Tea’: A Cultural Reflection
A cultural exploration of the meaning and function of art in museums today.
The History and Recipe of Kedgeree
Kedgeree is a variant of an Indian dish, Khichdi, which has been developed to suit British tastes and is influenced by geography, social change, and the tides of history.
The Pink Podcast
The Pink Podcast features leading figures from theatre, arts, and culture discussing impactful issues. In the opening episode, Sofi Berenger and Sanjit Chudha chat about the value of the arts, why communities and audiences matter, and how co-creation is the future.
Not Racist
A simple guide on how to be antiracist.
Telling history like it is
A conversation with Professor Corinne Fowler of the University of Leicester, and Director of ‘Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted’
