Not for the Likes of Us

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Untangling Art and Class

Chaired by Libby Purves (Radio 4’s Midweek, and The Times) After a decade of working to make the arts accessible, audiences are rising - but they're not broadening in class terms. The nation's theatres, concert halls, and galleries are still almost exclusively patronised by the middle classes. Accessiblilty cleary isn't enough. Should we instead be questioning the sort of art we're making and presenting? But can art divide along class lines? Is there such a thing as middle class art? What about working class art? If so, what, and where, is it? (Or is it called popular culture?) Have the middle classes got the arts in a stranglehold? Panel includes: Simon Casson (producer of Duckie), Professor Vanessa Toulmin (founder and research director of the National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield), Andrew Brighton (writer and former Senior Curator: Public Events at Tate Modern). Queer Up North