A ler, na edição do The Guardian, hoje

Entrevista com Sophie Calle, artista plástica, conceptual, performer, mulher sabedora.

'The worse the break-up, the better the art'

Sophie Calle views the suffering that comes with the end of a relationship with uncontained glee. From a creative point of view, the worse the break-up, the better the art: even as she is experiencing pain, the artist in her is starting to calculate how best she can exploit it.

Her new book, Exquisite Pain, is the product of a period of intense grief she experienced 20 years ago - so bad that she packed up everything associated with the relationship and its end, and left it untouched in a box until she felt strong enough to deal with it.


Reportagem sobre o escândalo que algumas figuras públicas fizeram quando souberam dos cortes que o Fundo ds Artes pretendia fazer. (Para ver se em Portugal alguém reage)

Arts funding freeze sparks fury

Leading arts figures reacted with fury yesterday after the government announced a £30m cut in funding in real terms - the first such setback to the arts since the Labour victory in 1997.
John Tusa, managing director of the Barbican, described the decision as a "slap in the face" and a return to "the bad old days". He said that those involved in the arts had been "namby-pamby" in their dealings with the government, and advised them to get "rough".

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport announced that its allocation of funding to Arts Council England would be frozen at its 2005 level of £413m until 2008. Taking into account Treasury inflation estimates, the grant will be worth £10m less in the financial year 2006-07 and £20m less in 2007-08, meaning a total shortfall of £30m in real terms.