The Deadalus Foundation has never treated culture as a decorative field separate from power. Culture is the atmosphere in which civilisation explains itself: what it fears, worships, remembers, suppresses and chooses to become.<\/p>
Across the last thousand years, the Foundation\u2019s interests have followed those moments when art, technology, belief and public life altered their relationship to one another. The rise of the medieval universities, the Gothic cathedral, the transmission of classical learning, the Renaissance workshop, the printing press, the Reformation pamphlet, the Enlightenment salon, the revolutionary newspaper, the public museum, the opera house, photography, cinema, radio, television, the popular album, the fashion runway, the internet and the social platform each changed not only what people could make, but what they could imagine together.<\/p>
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We recognise in Dante, Brunelleschi, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Rembrandt, Bach, Goethe, Mary Shelley, Turner, Wagner, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Picasso, Stravinsky, Baldwin, Kubrick, Bowie, Westwood, Basquiat and countless unnamed makers the same recurring force: the capacity to disturb an age into recognising itself.<\/p>
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The Foundation\u2019s cultural division works quietly across preservation, patronage, research, production, restoration, publishing, performance, image-making, design, fashion, music, film and digital media. Our concern is not taste in the ordinary sense. Taste is often retrospective. We are interested in the earlier signal: the experiment before it is understood, the style before it becomes a market, the symbol before it becomes a flag.<\/p>
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Culture is never neutral. A theatre can be a shelter, a weapon, a mirror or a court. A song can outlive a government. A painting can become evidence. A myth can organise a nation\u2019s dreams for centuries.<\/p>
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The Daedalus Foundation supports culture because culture is where the future first rehearses itself. It is the laboratory of meaning, the archive of human contradiction, and the most elegant machinery ever devised for turning memory into power.<\/p>"},"textColor":{"id":130434621,"value":"#{feature.text.color}"}}},{"id":5161738,"type":"button","published":1,"size":{"x":12,"y":0},"order":2,"items":[],"properties":{"text":{"id":130434622,"value":"This Button Goes Places"},"href":{"id":130434623,"value":"#"},"borderRadius":{"id":130434624,"value":"#{feature.border.radius}"},"align":{"id":130434625,"value":"left"},"primaryColor":{"id":130434626,"value":"#{button.primary.color}"},"secondaryColor":{"id":130434627,"value":"#{feature.text.color}"},"primary":{"id":130434628,"value":"0"}}}],"properties":{"icon":{"id":130094574,"value":null},"title":{"id":130094575,"value":"Culture"},"backgroundColor":{"id":130094577,"value":"#{feature.background.color}"},"padding":{"id":130094581,"value":"6"},"fullWidth":{"id":130094582,"value":"0"},"fullBackgroundColor":{"id":130094583,"value":"#{feature.fullBackground.color}"},"published":{"id":130094584,"value":"1"},"conditions":{"id":130094585,"value":"[]"},"direction":{"id":130434613,"value":"column"},"textColor":{"id":130434614,"value":"#{feature.text.color}"},"buttonText":{"id":130434615,"value":"This Button Goes Places"},"copy":{"id":130434616,"value":"
The Deadalus Foundation has never treated culture as a decorative field separate from power. Culture is the atmosphere in which civilisation explains itself: what it fears, worships, remembers, suppresses and chooses to become.<\/p>
Across the last thousand years, the Foundation\u2019s interests have followed those moments when art, technology, belief and public life altered their relationship to one another. The rise of the medieval universities, the Gothic cathedral, the transmission of classical learning, the Renaissance workshop, the printing press, the Reformation pamphlet, the Enlightenment salon, the revolutionary newspaper, the public museum, the opera house, photography, cinema, radio, television, the popular album, the fashion runway, the internet and the social platform each changed not only what people could make, but what they could imagine together.<\/p>
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We recognise in Dante, Brunelleschi, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Rembrandt, Bach, Goethe, Mary Shelley, Turner, Wagner, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Picasso, Stravinsky, Baldwin, Kubrick, Bowie, Westwood, Basquiat and countless unnamed makers the same recurring force: the capacity to disturb an age into recognising itself.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Foundation\u2019s cultural division works quietly across preservation, patronage, research, production, restoration, publishing, performance, image-making, design, fashion, music, film and digital media. Our concern is not taste in the ordinary sense. Taste is often retrospective. We are interested in the earlier signal: the experiment before it is understood, the style before it becomes a market, the symbol before it becomes a flag.<\/p>
<\/p>
Culture is never neutral. A theatre can be a shelter, a weapon, a mirror or a court. A song can outlive a government. A painting can become evidence. A myth can organise a nation\u2019s dreams for centuries.<\/p>
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The Daedalus Foundation supports culture because culture is where the future first rehearses itself. It is the laboratory of meaning, the archive of human contradiction, and the most elegant machinery ever devised for turning memory into power.<\/p>"},"template":{"id":130434617,"value":"feature"}}}],"properties":{"title":{"id":130094569,"value":"Culture and Entertainment"},"isStorePage":{"id":130094570,"value":"1"},"description":{"id":130094571,"value":"C&E"},"ogImage":{"id":130094572,"value":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/ycbmmarbgwirqhksuavhop6bg2qul2a1cvsf4acsqraxle1s.png.png?w=1200&h=auto"}},"labels":[],"published":1,"sitemap":1,"divisionId":315888,"edited":true}