Blogs
Culture Wars blogs allow contributors to take a critical and considered look at particular current events and phenomena as and when they happen. Our weekly editorial notes are also archived here.
Our first blog was Geoff Kidder’s seven-part series on the Beijing Olympics.
New: Dolan Cummings on the US elections and Sarah Boyes on the Cultural Olympiad.
CW editorial note - 19 May 2012
Society WarsThe IoI’s Social Policy Forum launches Society Wars, A History of the World since 9/11, and Three Kingdoms in London theatre.
CW editorial note - 8 May 2012
Chinese whispersControversy at the London Book Fair, and Globe to Globe
‘Dialogue is the objective of dialogue.’
Chinese writers and controversy at the London Book FairIf the exclusion of authors disliked by the Chinese government was a necessary condition for the British Council’s programme to go ahead, so be it. Whether it in fact was necessary is a separate discussion to have; what matters is that some established writers visited from China to exchange ideas about new literary genres, globalisation and e-publishing, and to search for commercial opportunities.
CW editorial note - 21 April 2012
State of the artLondon theatre, ‘difficult’ and exciting, and the Royal Ballet’s take on pop culture
CW editorial note - 9 April 2012
Why books matterThe case for libraries, reimagining China, and London theatre
CW editorial note 23 March 2012
Spring is sprungLondon theatre for spring
CW editorial note - 12 March 2012
Good as newSong Dong at the Barbican, Rusalka at the Royal Opera and London theatre
CW editorial note - 24 February 2012
Showing fleshLucian Freud portraits, plus revenge tragedy and restoration comedy and more on the London stage
CW editorial note - 17 February 2012
Art and natureDavid Hockney’s landscapes, oil sponsorship of the arts, and London theatre
CW editorial note - 10 February 2012
Sola scriptura?The Bible Now, and London theatre and opera
CW editorial note - 4 February 2012
Designs for lifeHow to direct a play, London theatre and Terence Conran
CW editorial note - 27 January 2012
Staging historyThatcher on stage, London International Mime Festival and war photography by Don McCullin
Reading Margaret Thatcher
Why is Maggie such a current issue in the arts?Investigating the legacy of Margaret Thatcher may seem, at first, to be a retreat from engaging with modern politics, but I believe exactly the opposite is taking place when contemporary artists turn to her. One way of understanding the present is to interrogate the past.
CW editorial note - 14 January 2012
Curtain upLondon theatre, multiculturalism and the symphony
CW editorial note - 5 January 2012
Happy new yearRoyal Manuscripts and postwar British painters
