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2010-09-13 Britain

Over 100 British artists join campaign against funding cuts

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Do a Google Image Search on some of these names. These people are government supported? Amazing. Actually it's not amazing, nobody would support them otherwise.

Posted by gromky 2010-09-13 03:16|| 2010-09-13 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Arts funding = Welfare for the unemployable children of the rich

And an anecdote on what happens to publicly funded arts that happens to have market value.

At the bottom of my street in the UK (when I was a kid) was the local library, which had a small garden area to the side and in the middle of this was a Henry Moore sculpture.

No one ever used to go there, which was probably why me and my friends used to hang out there likely plotting our next piece of mischief.

Henry Moore sculptures are valuable, even in those days worth thousands of pounds, and one night someone backed a truck with a crane up to the garden. Lifted the sculpture, which to my knowledge was never seen again.

Posted by phil_b 2010-09-13 03:45|| 2010-09-13 03:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Best publicity possible to maximise support for reducing "Arts" funded by extortion.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-09-13 06:35|| 2010-09-13 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 In Oklahoma, our glorious legislature has seen fit to subsidizing the arts by mandating one percent of the value of any construction project to be set aside for the incorporation of art.

The mandate at the time was placed firmly in the "Seemed like a good idea at the time" rubric, but now, in the era of falling revenues, has moved over pretty solidly to the "What the hell were we thinking" department.

I understand the need for arts funding. It is a subsidy to keep all those crappy artists and their art at bay and to prevent said artists from hitting the rich up for their rent.

Posted by badanov 2010-09-13 06:45|| 2010-09-13 06:45|| Front Page Top

The leftist artist should be careful, the alternative may be a Goya painting....March 30, 1746: Francisco Goya, Spanish painter, was born. A romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns, Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history and political oppression. "The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso

Posted by Goodluck 2010-09-13 07:13|| 2010-09-13 07:13|| Front Page Top

#6 "We stand to lose a great deal as a society if arts organizations are forced to stop the very valuable work they do."

Please provide verifiable statistical proof of this statement, Mr. Dufton.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-09-13 08:36|| 2010-09-13 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 "If you don't pay me for my feces fingerpainting, I might have to get a real job."

The horror.

The horror

Posted by Frank G 2010-09-13 10:17|| 2010-09-13 10:17|| Front Page Top

#8 One question always comes to mind when people (politicians) want to publicly fund artists, musicians, writers, etc. To wit: are we more culturally attuned now, than before the public expenditure(s)?? Just askin'.

Posted by WolfDog 2010-09-13 11:13|| 2010-09-13 11:13|| Front Page Top

#9 I haven't any idea who these people are.

I've heard of Tracey Emin. Her great work, "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With" -- a tent appliqueed with the names of, well, guess -- was tragically destroyed in a fire. Another "work" was "My Bed", in which she exhibited...her bed.

Her first public artwork, for which she was paid some staggering sum, was a little bronze bird sitting on top of a tall pole. It's designed so that the bird is hard to see, and according to Emin, "represents strength and femininity." In her defense, the bird did look like an actual bird.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-09-13 18:16|| 2010-09-13 18:16|| Front Page Top

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