It’s not charity or empty philanthropy. It’s an investment in jobs and our collective soul
by Kevin Spacey
Open any newspaper or turn on the TV and you are confronted with the realities of recession. So it is perhaps inevitable that there will be some who frame the arts and culture as luxury items and accept that they will have to survive on shorter rations. And in the grand scheme of things, what does it matter, they say.
I believe that, far from being luxury items, arts and culture are a necessity in our lives, as individuals and as nations. Culture is the ...read the whole article
(Originally Published in TimesOnline on May 9, 2009)
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