The following article illustrates how artists in Australia today (that is those who 'play the game' so as to receive 'official' acceptance and the filthy lucre that flows from said acceptance), are no longer independent in the true sense of the word. Such sheep are happy to accede to the demands of their left-wing patrons irrespective of what they might feel personally about any issue, and they will do it in ignorance of the logical consequences because who in the world would think it is the artists duty to think logically?
Puhlease my brother...we are artistes!
In the past when the funding dried up they ran bleating to the government and begged for more moolah and when the lefties were in power they got it.
I suspect that it will not turn out so comfortably this time.
Watch this space for the bleating, hand-wringing and emotional diatribes.
Australian artists demonstrate the collective instinct that distinguishes the mediocre, the intolerance of difference that distinguishes the totalitarian and the contempt for consequences (as in the death of 1100 boat people thanks to policies they never protested) that distinguishes the adolescent. In other words, the Left has won:
The Biennale of Sydney has announced it will sever ties with its founding partner Transfield, caving into pressure from artists angered by the company’s links to Australia’s offshore detention centres.
The board of the Biennale of Sydney also announced on Friday that Luca Belgiorno-Nettis had resigned as chairman, less than two weeks before the event is scheduled to begin. Mr Belgiorno-Nettis’s resignation after 14 years and the severing of ties with Transfield represents a huge win for artists and refugee advocates and an embarrassing backdown for the Biennale board, which claimed the Biennale could not exist without Transfield and pledged its loyalty to the Belgiorno-Nettis family two weeks ago.
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