John Berger’s revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
John Berger by John Christie
John Berger powerfully examined the way we view the world. But as for many people of my generation, who were captivated by his epoch-making (...)
Artist and author John Berger died on January 2, 2017 at his home in Paris. John was one of TNI’s first fellows. We remember him fondly as a kind man with a singular perspective on the world and the presence of a natural performer.
John was best known for his series Ways of Seeing for the BBC, (...)
Andy Merrifield pays tribute to John Berger, who passed away aged 90 on 2 January 2017.
John died yesterday. I’ll remember his voice, his laugh, his charm and generosity. His words. Stripped-down words, mystical and carefully chosen words, earthy words, fierce words. They’ll always grab us, make (...)
Dario Fo died on October 13th, 2016. The playwright, actor artist and all-round provocateur was 90.
THE stone lions that guard the Romanesque cathedral at Modena, in northern Italy, were doubly dear to Dario Fo. As a lover of medieval architecture, he studied and revered the old beasts as art. (...)
He’s been a thorn in the establishment’s side since Cathy Come Home and Kes. At 80, he’s made his angriest film yet.
Ken Loach sits with his hands clutching his chair for dear life, his head shrinking into his shoulders, a skinny question mark of a man. Never did a man appear so diffident. And (...)
Left Unity congratulates Ken Loach and his team for winning the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival with I, Daniel Blake. The film is a powerful and damning indictment of the government-provoked crisis in the welfare and housing sectors which leaves hundreds of thousands struggling to (...)
Fresh from winning Palme d’Or with I, Daniel Blake, director says he hopes it will affect government policy in the same way as earlier film Cathy Come Home.
Loach, who will turn 80 next month, came out of retirement to make the movie, saying he hoped it would influence welfare policy in the (...)
There are shades of Dickens and Orwell in this emphatic drama about a disabled man strangled by the red tape of the benefits system.
With this movie — maybe his last, and maybe not — Ken Loach establishes himself yet further as the John Bunyan of contemporary British cinema. Based on research (...)
Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged. Artists in World War I. Edited by Gordon Hughes and Philipp Blom. Los Angeles, CA: The Getty Research Institute, 2014, Illustrated, 198 pages, $40 hardback.
FOR THE WORLD War I centenary, The Getty Research Institute organized an exhibit — “World War I: War of (...)
Lecture unites Themester, Lilly library exhibit
Lilly library Max Eastman Exhibit of New Papers
Professor Alan Wald began his lecture with a trigger warning for those who lean to the right of the American political spectrum.
“The content of this evening’s lecture may contain a certain amount (...)
“You lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, and then you win.” Rosa Luxemburg
The worldwide revolutionary movement inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 encompassed a powerful cultural component: hundreds of thousands of literary, visual, and performing artists – writers, painters, (...)
The story of country music is not love and happiness but love and work
This is the second of a two-part column before summer break, when county fairs blossom and country music season begins in earnest. The previous entry tracked the waning of the country/city antagonism vital to the genre’s (...)
Baltimore, USA. Over the past year I have been trying to reconcile two things that are of critical importance in my life: political activism as rooted in struggle against systems of oppression, and engagement in a variety of small-scale projects and events that help us imagine and (perhaps only (...)
The criminalization of graffiti is not a new phenomenon . As a former writer who has been on the receiving end of brutalities from both Philadelphia and Los Angeles police department’s finest, I’m more than comfortable stating that the government’s repression of public art has been escalating and (...)
In Sri Lanka, the ’70s represented the rising tide of the revolutionary idealism and the sadistic brutality embedded in the State structure. The social and cultural fabric - fragmented by ethnic and class disparities - provided the breeding grounds for discontent and radical political activism. (...)
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Don’t make a sour face. You know things are difficult for everyone. And you know you have comrades working with you for a more joyful day. When you feel alone, just look around you. All of these people are our comrades.
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The road we are traveling is not going to be easy. And there will (...)
Adrienne Rich was an exquisitely politically poet—and a politically exquisite poet.
Radical in word and deed, Rich did not play games with politics or poetry. She treated each seriously, displaying a genius first recognized by W.H. Auden in the early days of the McCarthy Era that so horrified (...)
In a modest flat off a dusty lane in the Muslim-majority town of Mumbra, a group of young girls is sitting in a semi-circle. Before they entered the apartment, they were all covered with the black veil, the unofficial dress code of any conservative Muslim mohalla in the subcontinent. But now, (...)
Labour Education Foundation’s documentary “Rise of the Oppressed” on power loom workers of Faisalabad directed by Ammar Aziz has been selected for Berlin Film Festival. Ammar Aziz is in Berlin these days for the event. This film has been selected among few from over 4300 entries from 137 (...)
An old Greek saying, “the hungry bear does not dance,” refers to an era when chained bears danced in the street while their masters beat tambourines. When hungry, however, the bears were not inclined to dance. Something similar is going on right now in Greece at this time of crisis. Artists and (...)
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