Arts Council England’s Mumbo-Jumbo Policy

What’s all this about Arts Council England soliciting policy help from the public? “Art can only do the thing politicians and arts wonks most dream about – bring people together – if it works. And the only art that really works has been created for its own sake, rather than to achieve some spooky form of social engineering. It’s all very well to deride art for art’s sake, but abandon the creative impulse altogether, and you’re lost.”