The arts in Britain are now joyless vestiges of their former selves
From our UK edition
Conquest’s Third Law (as proposed by the historian Robert Conquest) states: ‘The behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.’ In no other area is this better demonstrated today than the arts. And if you don’t think of the arts as a bureaucratic organisation, you haven’t been paying attention. Alexandra Wilson’s Culture Vultures is a diatribe against the attempt to turn the arts into mediocre, unappealing, deplorable shadows of themselves.
