Questionar a relação do Estado com a cultura
Já antes tinha aqui dado conta do corte financeiro que o Art Council em Inglaterra queria fazer à cultura e da resposta dos criadores. O The Guardian publica hoje uma reacção de Tom Morris, Co-director do National Theatre. A ler com atenção, aqui.
Um excerto:
Across the country, thousands of artists and thousands of projects have been properly funded for the first time in living memory. For the first time in our professional lives there has been money for experiment, money for growth, money for creative investment. A revolution occurred in Sheffield, where Michael Grandage turned the new money into world-class theatre. At Tate Modern and the National Theatre, visionary leadership has been rewarded with substantial investment and the results are palpable success. Give the RSC a couple of years and it will join them. There is no doubt that this investment was creating a cultural golden age in Britain.
There was only one puzzling thing. The government refused to tell anyone what they had done. Having flirted with Blur and Oasis in 1998, Blair's spin-pot dictators decided that the arts were unmentionable. How many taxpayers know that the arts budget has been doubled by the present government? Stop some and ask. I did. The answer is none.
Já antes tinha aqui dado conta do corte financeiro que o Art Council em Inglaterra queria fazer à cultura e da resposta dos criadores. O The Guardian publica hoje uma reacção de Tom Morris, Co-director do National Theatre. A ler com atenção, aqui.
Um excerto:
Across the country, thousands of artists and thousands of projects have been properly funded for the first time in living memory. For the first time in our professional lives there has been money for experiment, money for growth, money for creative investment. A revolution occurred in Sheffield, where Michael Grandage turned the new money into world-class theatre. At Tate Modern and the National Theatre, visionary leadership has been rewarded with substantial investment and the results are palpable success. Give the RSC a couple of years and it will join them. There is no doubt that this investment was creating a cultural golden age in Britain.
There was only one puzzling thing. The government refused to tell anyone what they had done. Having flirted with Blur and Oasis in 1998, Blair's spin-pot dictators decided that the arts were unmentionable. How many taxpayers know that the arts budget has been doubled by the present government? Stop some and ask. I did. The answer is none.
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