When chaos seems to be the norm, how do we run our businesses? Work Smart Not Hard Tip No. 43 in a series written for Indie Cambs From AI to wars, politics, supply chains, prices, DEI issues and more, it’s easy to feel that we’re not able to influence anything very much. If you sometimes […]
This seems like a very controversial statement in the days when it is increasingly difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake. “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a […]
How do you work out what to charge? At a recent Work Smart Not Hard meeting a new member who had just left his corporate employment of many years to start freelancing was explaining how he used spreadsheets to work out how much time he spent on each job and what this meant about how […]
“Creativity is Our Real Capital.” German artist Joseph Beuys 1921–1986 Do you see art as separate from the rest of life? A sort of optional add-on that governments alternately ignore and pay lip service to? Something that is dropped from education programmes in favour of more practical subjects? Joseph Beuys is known for his “extended […]
“What is art for? To make us feel something” Brian Eno Iris Murdoch observed that “tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify” and Auden insisted that “the mere making of a work of art is itself a political act.” Art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger adds: […]