David Lee
May/June 2020
A few inches of headway have finally been made in drawing wider public attention to the power grabs of the Arts Council and the political and social prejudices of State Art in general. The House of Commons Culture Select Committee must now get its act together and take to task the arts bodies that have become breeding grounds for such obsessive beliefs. Not having any further excuse for inaction, it should pay more attention to the conditions under which £470 million is distributed.
A report just published by Arts Professional (AP) exposes the suffocating biases imposed by our major arts institutions. AP is an independent website unsupported by the Arts Council and,