Yet another important painting in Britain is apparently “in danger” of being sold abroad. And another campaign is mounted to raise money to “save” it. “This rhetorical flourish is becoming commonplace in Britain. Our public galleries are so strapped for cash that barely a week goes by without an appeal being launched to ‘save’ some work for the nation, or some top aesthete bending the knee before Lottery paymasters for lolly to keep something beautiful from leaving this country. This rhetoric may be to an extent justified by the parlous state of public funding for the arts, but it does raise suspicions that the principles underlying these claims are sometimes questionable.”
Tag: 03.20.03
Pasternak’s House In Jeopardy
“One of Russian literature’s most famous houses, where the writer Boris Pasternak lived and composed his best work, including Dr Zhivago, will soon be ‘ruined’ by the construction of an estate of holiday homes opposite it, according to his relatives.”