How suscipious are we for what art can offer? What is the role of art in public imagination and democratic participation? Who has the real power--politics or art? Or are these notions more than two mutually exclusive terms?
Sculptor Antony Gormley, film-maker Penny Woolcock, Matthew Taylor--chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts in England, and Rushanara Ali--associate director of the Young Foundation discuss the aforementioned questions in a panel chaired by Madeleine Bunting--associate editor of the Guardian.
Hear the debate.