Forthcoming Events
- IoI Forum
- Culture Wars Forum
- Venue: London
- Date: Ongoing
The Culture Wars website carries reviews of theatre, film, fiction and non-fiction books, exhibitions, lectures and debates, as well as features, interviews and essays on all aspects of contemporary culture. The site is edited by Dolan Cummings. The contributors are a combination of writers with an expertise in particular forms, whether theatre, literature or art, and more general commentators, often involved in other aspects of the Institute of Ideas’ work. Most of the writing on Culture Wars combines critical reflection on particular work with a thematic approach, looking at how contemporary ideas are expressed through culture.
The Culture Wars Forum has been meeting monthly in London since the Battle of Ideas 2005, to allow Culture Wars contributors and others to continue the discussion about current ideas and developments in the arts.
Forthcoming meetings
Date & details TBA
Contact culture@instituteofideas.com
Past meetings
Thursday 22 May
Michael Savage introduced a practical and theoretical discussion on how to review art exhibitions.
Wednesday 13 February 2008
John Groves will discuss 'The meaning of music'.
Thursday 15 November 2007
Culture Wars' film editor Ion Martea introduced a discussion on the demise of taboos in film and visual culture, with refernce to the Barbican's current 'Seduced' exhibition.
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Prof Raymond Tallis introduced a discussion on poetry
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Nathalie Rothschild will introduce a discussion on photography as art and documentary.
Thursday 21 June 2007
Tim Abrahams from Blueprint magazine introduced a discussion on the themes raised by Architecture Week.
Listen to Tim's introduction:
Tuesday 22 May 2007
The Culture Wars forum discussed literature in translation.
22 March 2007
Ion Martea discussed cinema
28 February 2006
Ivan Hewett, who writes on music for the Daily Telegraph, presents on BBC Radio 3, teaches at the Royal College of Music and is author of Music: Healing the Rift, introduced classical music reviewing.
You can listen to Ivan's introduction via streaming media:
12 December 2006
Tim Coates - former managing director of Waterstone's and author of 'Who's in Charge? Responsibility for the Public Library Service', and now editor of The Good Library Blog - introduced 'The Fate of Libraries'
13 November 2006
The meeting was a joint event with the IoI Education Forum, on the teaching of poetry.
18 July 2006
July's forum looked at the new rehang at Tate Modern in London, and the role of the curator more generally in presenting art and art history.
Michael Savage introduced the session.
See his review on Culture Wars here