JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 2023 National Portfolio Organisations are those whose conformity the Arts Council has decided it can rely on sufficiently to allocate annual grants three years ahead of time. Getting on the NPO roster constitutes the blue riband of subsidy. Under normal circumstances once you’re in, and you follow orders to the letter, it’s doubles all… Continue reading Northern Lights
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John Cassidy (1860-1939)
A Line in the Sand
State Art is like a virus, it knows no boundaries and spreads like wildfire. In fact, it’s worse than a virus because once it’s arrived you can’t get rid of it because there’s seemingly no cure. And there are plenty of students actually volunteering to contract it. And national boundaries are no protection for it… Continue reading A Line in the Sand
Sula Rubens
Janet Lynch
James Dodds
Clair Cansick
Mary-Anne Aytoun-Ellis
At Home with Dick French
Mary Wollstonecraft Memorial, Newington Green
A silvery bronze sculpture of pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) by Maggi Hambling has been unveiled on Newington Green in north London. Revolutionary thinker Wollstonecraft lived nearby. The £143,000 cost, which took ten years to collect, was raised by public subscription, some of which donors may now be wishing they had more productively spent their… Continue reading Mary Wollstonecraft Memorial, Newington Green