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.
Geoff Kidder, director of membership and events at the Institute of Ideas, follows his seven-part series on the Beijing Olympics with coverage of the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa and other developments in sport.
Discussion of the four-year celebration of culture leading up to the London Olympics, 2012.
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
CW editorial note - 16 December 2011
Cultural studiesBaudrillard, cognitive technology and London theatre
CW editorial note - 9 December 2011
Reimagining the pastDavid Owen Norris on Winterreise with puppets, plus Shiraz Bayjoo at the Whitechapel Gallery and AD Miller’s Snowdrops
