Tim Worstall

Hmm, well:

An artist who made his name by presenting a real racehorse as a work of art was betting yesterday on his proposal for a giant horse to win a £2 million commission for an “Angel of the South” sculpture.
Mark Wallinger’s standing white stallion will be so huge that a person will be no taller […]

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This, from here.
No, animals do not have rights: but humans do have duties of care.
Guillermo Habacuc Vargas would really be most unfortunate if he were to meet me in a dark alley: or a well lit room come to that.

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Women in the top posts will have got there on sheer flair, stamina, determination and conscientiousness.

Ms. Kelly is in one of those top posts.
Can’t beat that old English reticence about blowing your own trumpet now, can you?

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I wish we in the arts didn’t have to take a penny from wealthy individuals.

Stop paying yourselves. Do it for the love of it or not at all.

Most donors are more sensitive and more intelligent than this. They are genuine enthusiasts who want to share some of their money with an arts organisation. But in […]

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Fame brings too many distractions, even the mildest affluence is the implacable enemy of creativity,

So we’ll only actually get any creativity when artists are starving in garrets.
Quick, abolish the Arts Council!

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Mick….he’s the boyo!

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Well, this is a surprise, isn’t it?

Arts Council England (Ace) was plunged into a crisis when 500 of the country’s top actors passed an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the organisation over cuts it is making in grants to almost 200 theatres and music companies.

The supplicants for your and my money are hardly going […]

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So this group are claiming that Leonardo da Vinci put into his paintings, in the same way that he used mirror writing, images that only clarified themselves when seen in a mirror.

But now a group known as The Mirror of the Sacred Scriptures and Paintings World Foundation believes that he applied the same technique to […]

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I think we should start a campaign.

The conceptual artist Mark Wallinger, otherwise known as the Dancing Bear, has won the £25,000 Turner Prize for his monumental political work, State Britain, a recreation of the one-man Parliament Square anti-Iraq war protest destroyed by Tony Blair’s government.

Most weird that a direct copy, a stencilling almost, should win […]

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