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THE HEADLINES
PRICE OF GOLD. It value the UK greater than $315 million of tax payers’ hard-earned money to arrange its athletes for the Paris Olympics. Staff GB gained 64 medals, which equates to virtually $5 million per podium place. To whittle it down additional, every of the UK’s 14 gold medals value a median of $22.5 million. What’s this received to do with artwork? Effectively, a author from The Instances crunched the above numbers and puzzled why the federal government spends a lot on synchronized swimming, breakdancing, and canoeing when arts funding within the UK has fallen off the cliff. “Towards such a grim background [of the country’s slashed cultural budget], is it affordable to spend £245 million of public cash on coaching simply 327 British athletes to win Olympic medals — or, usually, not win them?” Richard Morrison writes. “And let’s be frank, there have been some actual disappointments for Staff GB in Paris. Our hockey groups didn’t get anyplace close to the rostrum. That was £13.7 million of funding down the drain. (Don’t ask me why it takes £13.7 million to coach two hockey groups.) In boxing we gained only one bronze; not a lot to point out for £12.1 million of funding.” He rages on, arguing {that a} “affluent and civilized nation” would worth each the humanities and sports activities equally.
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OIL SOLD OUT. A Western Australian artwork collective referred to as pvi has handed some outsized invoices to 5 firms it claims are the state’s greatest carbon polluters. Eight members of the artwork group personally delivered the roughly 7-foot-tall mock payments to the Perth workplaces of BHP, Glencore, Inpex, Woodside, and Chevron. The invoices whole tens of billions of {dollars}, which is what pvi say the cohort of polluting corporations owe the neighborhood for the environmental and societal injury brought on by their carbon emissions. Kelli McCluskey, pvi’s chief govt artist, instructed The Artwork Newspaper, “We’ve realized that coming at issues with aggression doesn’t assist,” taking intention on the Simply Cease Oil members who’re intent on masking work in soup. “We have to go the opposite means, and lead with kindness and humor. I feel individuals are extra open to humor than they’re to aggression.” The artists name themselves The Social License Watchdogs and mentioned the businesses have 21 days to cough up the money, and have the choice of fee plan. “Six straightforward installments of $71 billion,” pvi kindly provided.
THE DIGEST
A wax determine of Taylor Swift in Germany’s Panoptikum Wax Museum is being “roasted” by her followers. “Fully unrealistic, somebody did a horrible job,” one person wrote on Instagram. Take a look for yourselves. [Independent]
Researchers have found that one among Stonehenge’s six-ton rocks seemingly originated from the Orcadian Basin in north-east Scotland, not Wales as was beforehand thought. [The Art Newspaper]
Are you a artistic kind who’s struggling to maintain your head above the water? Rolling Stone has some morale-boosting recommendation for you. [Rolling Stone]
Claudette Elaine Johnson, MBE, is one among 4 artists who’ve been nominated for a Turner Prize. Her inclusion is especially noteworthy as a result of she helped set up the primary Nationwide Black Artwork Conference within the UK. The winner will probably be introduced on December 3. [BBC]
THE KICKER
OLDER, ANGRIER, CRINGIER. Right here’s one other grey-haired man venting in The Instances. Veteran artwork supplier Michael Findlay bemoans how the wealthy have ruined the artwork market. He says that when he arrived in New York as a fresh-faced 23-year-old, there was no such factor as an “artwork market”. The phrase wasn’t used in any respect. “The market meant a grocery retailer.” Apparently, the artwork world wasn’t all the time “so mercenary.” “The Sixties artwork scene conjured up by Findlay in his memoir ‘Portrait of the Artwork Supplier as a Younger Man’ is maverick, experimental, and much much less bothered about the underside line,” journalist Laura Freeman, who interviewed Findlay, writes. In his ebook, Findlay recounts partying with Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, and Liza Minnelli, dropping acid, extra partying. It’s onerous to not cringe, like when a dad or uncle reminisces about their glory days. [The Times]