tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post9002162835585961636..comments2024-03-14T19:52:55.883-07:00Comments on Grumpy Art Historian: "People Like You": Michael Rosen, the cultured bigotMichael Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557727287816852329noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post-63132286914598507712014-04-13T22:57:23.192-07:002014-04-13T22:57:23.192-07:00Thank you. Yes, what I really resent about Rosen i...Thank you. Yes, what I really resent about Rosen is the implication that people like him - left-leaning cultural professionals - have a monopoly on insight into the arts, and the only legitimate role for others is to give them money and consume what they produce. I find it ironic that a socialist like Rosen, who is doubtless sincere in his hatred of prejudice, can himself be so narrow-minded and unreflective.Michael Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557727287816852329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454459186129750328.post-79228091580145152014-04-13T14:36:21.971-07:002014-04-13T14:36:21.971-07:00Dear Mr Grumpy -
As the daughter of a very un-evil...Dear Mr Grumpy -<br />As the daughter of a very un-evil bank manager (from back in the day when the managers ran the banks, and were professional, and doused in integrity), I completely sympathize with your post. No 'class' of worker can be damned as a whole, by association with others of their trade who have let them down; besides the arts - & art especially, of which I know more - are supported by a band of hedge funders of great taste and huge philanthropic instincts (one of whom runs the V & A and the Courtauld). The Bank of America underwrote The Cult of Beauty at the V & A, and Barclays supports a whole range of artistic endeavour. This also goes for the government, which supplies the Art Fund with the wherewithall to get a lot of small ventures under weigh, which would never get going without that support. I am immensely grateful to both government and Art Fund, for making it possible for something I wrote to be on the brink of its appearance, the recession having scuppered my attempts to publish through 18th century-ish subscription. No arts funding scheme will please everybody, because there's a limited pot which has to stretch over the old, the young, the halt & lame, the flood-battered, the overseas deprived, the war-makers, &c., &c. I'd like to see what Sajid Javid is going to do, and I hold out lots of hope... <br />LynnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com