Manick Govinda at SDPtalk argues against an arts policy whose model of artists and cultural institutions is closer to a school teacher whose aim is to ensure the public make ‘the correct’ interpretations; an attitude exemplified in the justifications for delaying the Philip Guston exhibition at the Tate Modern: A recent example concerns the planned […]
Parr For The Course
Graphic designer and photographer Howard Sherwood considers the case of Martin Parr, whose response to accusations of being racist, along with little or no institutional support, has been resignation, public apology and a demand for the offending book to be destroyed. If artistic institutions continue to side with activists, whose demands curtail freedom of artistic […]