There is more money for music in schools, for libraries, and the total grant aid and National Lottery money for the regions has increased by 44 per cent this year. Sadler's Wells is rebuilt and the Tate on Bankside approaches its spectacular opening. Chris Smith, already the longest serving arts minister for many years, has achieved, in his steady and scrupulous way, the kind of results that are spreading benefits widely and will continue to do so. John Tusa's arguments are limited in two damaging ways. The first is in his constant questionable assertions, many of which would be equally half true if reversed.
Art is about searching and sometimes finding . . .
It is about sharing the private and listening for silence . . . It is lasting but not immediate . . . It is valuable but priceless. He over-eggs all his puddings. For Keynes it was an article of belief that a university needed a theatre in exactly the same way as science needed a laboratory.