Unpleasant signs of arts world infighting

[Keith Jeffrey]

Its becoming apparent that the arts world is beginning to turn in on itself and present a split/disunited view of not how the arts should be funded but who gets what. Artists are railing at administrators, see Mark Ravenhill's Guardian blog

Today Nick Starr is advocating cutting subsidy to Art & Business

Whilst we can all point to better ways of doing things, this sort of nonsense really isn't helpful. The issue is that arts funding supports an essential part of British life, cutting it to the level being proposed will be disastrous, cant we focus around that rather than old score settling?

[David Bolton]

Just in case you missed this from last week in the Grauniad:

The directors' debate: Are arts funding cuts a good idea? Theatre directors Adrian Jackson and David Parrish debate the pros and cons of Arts Council spending cuts

[David Bolton]

Oops....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/aug/25/directors-debate-arts...