Not only do I fail to keep this blog up to date (Tweeting has to substitute sometimes for active engagement here), but I don’t get my homework in on time either. Homework? Yes, during term time I’ve been trooping off to Cardiff University – well actually to the National Museum in Cardiff – for a [...]
Archive for the ‘Arts’ Category
A Phoenix rises from The Persians
Posted: August 22, 2010 by peterdcox in Arts, Cardiff, Funding, Reviews, Theatre, Wales Assembly GovernmentI cannot imagine that there are many who had the good fortune to see The Persians (background story) over the past two weeks, who doubted that we were present at one of the defining occasions of English-language theatre in Wales. Even the London critics somehow managed to find themselves seated, not in West End luxury, [...]
In writing about the new YouTube phenomena that is Kseniya Simonova there have been a couple of common threads: “it couldn’t have happened here”, and “but is it art?” Of course it couldn’t happen here: eight minutes of prime time television with a young (albeit televisually attractive) woman throwing sand about to an edited sound [...]
Olympics: a quick way to destroy the arts and rob a nation?
Posted: August 10, 2007 by peterdcox in Arts, Funding, OlympicsTags: Arts, Olympics, Public Funding
First it becomes clear that the arts are going to suffer disproportionately because of the 2012 Games, now it’s revealed that a whole country is to suffer. Pouring boiling oil onto already troubled waters, <a href=”http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3917/” title=”Jenkins article”>Tiffany Jenkins </a>makes the case that the arts sector has itself to blame for the current situation, or [...]
