Leader today on the cut (ie, no rises in) arts funding announced:
Public funding for the
arts is a little like adding fertiliser: it cannot by itself turn a
desert into a verdant meadow, but it will encourage growth where the
right conditions exist.
One could recast this in rather more earthy, farmer like tones. Spread shit around and you get a better crop. Such a pity that what the modern arts scene seems to produce, rather than consume, is ordure.
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Public funding for the arts is indeed like adding fertiliser; all you get is an ever-larger pile of crap.
“All arts and culture organisations ask for one thing: not bottomless pockets but reliable funding.” If they produced anything worth seeing, the “reliable funding” would come from the hordes of satisfied customers.
As someone (P. J. O’Rourke?) put it, arts subsidies consist of paying money to artists who aren’t good enough to make it on their own.
Chris Ofili is I believe a net consumer of ordure
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