New Arts Policy

Posted by Melissa
on September 23, 2004 | 4 comments

Boris will unveil some new tentative arts policy ideas at Party Conference in October.

Watch this space - Olly, researcher to Boris, will post a preview soon.

in parliament

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Comment by Rob on September 23, 2004 @ 11:22 pm

“new tentative arts policy”: All mime artists will be hit with sticks? Go on. You know you want to.

Comment by Alistair Coleman on September 24, 2004 @ 10:11 am

Not just hit with sticks, but hung upside-down in a cell opposite a sign reading “LEARN THE WORDS”.

Thank you, Terry Pratchett.

Comment by Vanessa J. Howson on September 24, 2004 @ 10:18 am

Dear Mr Johnston,
I do hope that with your arts policy you will get rid of the horrible word

Comment by Nosemonkey on September 24, 2004 @ 1:11 pm

In addition to Vanessa’s points (well made - especially old buildings - English Heritage needs more funding to help protect these things, along with a major overhaul of its atrotious organisational structure), how about a truly radical move — keep politicians out of the decisions of what art and heritage projects to fund, just set aside a decent amount of money, and allow an independent panel of experts to portion it out. —- Oh, and scrap all VAT on museums, galleries, arts centres and the rest, there’s a good chap…

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