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Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights
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On the 10th of September I attended a performance of City Lights at the Cadogan Hall sponsored by Citi and organised by Edicis. The event was to celebrate 125 years of British film. City Lights is Charlie Chaplin’s silent masterpiece that was produced after the introduction of the Jazz Singer in the Autumn of 1927…
After the war the arts came back stronger?
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Charlotte Higgins in her article, “After the war the arts came back stronger” had a self-prophesying ring about it (Please see article here). Ms Higgins erroneously says that the war was the last time cultural organisations ground to a halt. The Arts Council developed from the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA)…
“The world looks to British theatre. So let’s get it back on track…”
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So ran the headline in the Observer on Sunday 24th May 2020. It was an article by Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport. ( https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/24/the-world-looks-to-british-theatre-so-lets-get-it-back-on-track ) The article presented the new task force and working groups which was the same old storey with the usual suspects in place. Of course…
Intellectual Property Office consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
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Intellectual Property Office consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence There is an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – GOV.UK The consultation will run for 10 weeks. It commences at 10:30 on 17 December 2024 and will close at 23:59 on 25 February 2025. I am attaching a briefing paper from UK…
“Opera is often derided as elitist”
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There was a leader article, “Opera is often derided as elitist”, in the Guardian on the 28th September 2017. Regrettably the article ignores the fact that opera in the UK receives a disproportionate amount of public subsidy compared to other art forms and like the banks are too big to fail. In a time of…
The Arts Council funds the arts in England for four years without coherent art form policies
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The Arts Council has recently published funding for the four year national portfolio organisations. The Arts Council’s method of funding the arts in England is fatally flawed. The problem is that the funding decisions are not informed by a coherent art form policy that would hold the Arts Council to account. Further more the Arts…