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There’s Sense In Nonsense: HFP in Moscow with The British Council

By - David
Posted on February, 3, 2017February, 2, 2017

I Five metres from a slipper bath filled with ice and cocktails, discussing Modernist Art with Paul Mason, Jenny Broom, Aysulu and Anna (from British Council Russia) we found we had experienced the same epiphany as Paul at the Tretyakov Gallery that day. We had been confronted by an alternative narrative of the origins of

Not with a bang but a Wimpy – T.S. Eliot’s Economics in ‘The Rock’

By - David
Posted on April, 9, 2015April, 10, 2015

Reading T.S. Eliot’s pageant play ‘The Rock’, I mistook the statement Make perfect your will to mean one’s Last Will and Testament. Yet reflecting on my mistake it seemed apt, first that Eliot’s play should reveal my preoccupation with money, and secondly that I had imported the essential Capitalist pact into the play. Our Will

Remembrance Day Talk at Poetry Library – Digest and Protest

By - David
Posted on November, 13, 2014November, 13, 2014

I gave a short talk in the Southbank Centre on Remembrance Sunday. Sir Andrew Motion began the day with a reading of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est, and the centrepiece was a performance of Britten’s War Requiem, chiefly featuring players representative of the age for military service. There’s a link at the end for

Artists in Public: Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding pt.3

By - David
Posted on October, 23, 2014October, 23, 2014

You are an Artist. You graduated from art college more than two years ago, but opportunities seem to be drying up, or at least are a bit chaotic. Occasionally local things come up, but you fear involvement with ‘community art’ will effect your credibility with the gallery system. You haven’t achieved gallery representation yet and

Evil Subject Number Three – Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding pt.2

By - David
Posted on October, 20, 2014October, 20, 2014

So far Zuidervaart has argued that the Arts are needed, but who should pay for them? And what is the economic argument for doing so? This is what Zuidervaart calls his Public Justice Premise, the second premise of the three found in his book ‘Art In Public’. Zuidervaart argues that Civil Society should be given

“Something Nice, Like An Otter” – Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding (pt.1)

By - David
Posted on October, 13, 2014October, 14, 2014

Imagine this scenario. Two children come running into your kitchen, screaming and shouting over each other. The first child is shouting ‘He pushed me! He snatched my scooter!’ And the second one is shouting ‘It’s mine, it’s not his. He shouldn’t be touching my scooter!’ Now on the face of it, these children are totally

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There’s Sense In Nonsense: HFP in Moscow with The British Council

Not with a bang but a Wimpy – T.S. Eliot’s Economics in ‘The Rock’

Remembrance Day Talk at Poetry Library – Digest and Protest

Artists in Public: Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding pt.3

Evil Subject Number Three – Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding pt.2

“Something Nice, Like An Otter” – Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding (pt.1)