Brian Eno’s John Peel lecture: what we learned

Brian Eno delivered this year’s John Peel lecture and used it to deliver a moving and thought-provoking examination of why human beings make art. Here are the highlights …Much of Eno’s speech was dedicated to the age-old question: what is art? His answer was nothing if not concise: art is everything that you don’t have to do. To explain this, Eno pointed out that we need to eat, but we don’t need to create a baked alaska. We need to move, but we don’t have to