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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
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"You don't speak for me."
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Oh crap…I clicked a CBC link….
I think these indians are plagiarizing Salvatore Dali.
Or is it ….. Pablo Picasso ….. whatever … jumbled crap whatever it is. But ya let’s toss 350 million their way …. and help GM sell more trucks.
There have always been great native artists – think Ellen Neel, Benjamin Chee Chee, Douglas Cranmer (and both Ellen Neel and Douglas Cranmer would give credit to carvers such as Charlie James, Martin, and Bill Reid). Good artists – both native and non-native – will find their gift and a way to express it, even if it means holding a day job until the work is recognized. Not-so-good artists suck at the public teat and whine that they are “unappreciated”, not seeing their work for the dreck that it is.
I favour a certain amount of subsidy of the arts, but there has to be a point at which those whose only “talent” is to produce shock art and mindless insults need to be firmly taken off the public purse.
Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant..buy more Coke….money runs out…Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant..buy more Coke….money runs out…Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant..buy more Coke….money runs out…Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant..buy more Coke….money runs out…Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant..buy more Coke….money runs out…Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant..buy more Coke….money runs out…Get grant….Buy Coke…make stuff..get grant….
…. buy Escalade
http://puffin.creighton.edu/museums/archive/0_toconnell/airplane.jpg
My one application for a Canada Council grant was denied due to “the prospect of commercial success”. In other words, they will fund crap that nobody would buy. To be a member of the Canada Council, one has to have been the recipient of a grant, so it is a never ending circle of friends funding their friends with taxpayer money. But what else is new under a Liberal government?
Why not just have the National Gallery buy the indigenous art to add to the enormous amount of crap that’s already there? The example shown in the CBC piece woukd fit right in.
I was looking at some of your art Kate and you have a incredible gift. Very talented in a variety of ways.
I’ve bought a fair bit of native art over the years. But I’ve bought the stuff I like at the price the artist and I negotiated. There’s some good stuff, and there’s what one Inuit carver referred to as, “the roadkill” (his words, not mine). I suspect the stuff that will get the grants will be the roadkill. By the way, three guesses as to when and how much the government “investment” in native art will pay back?
After 10 years of Conservative government why, pray tell, is there still a Canada Council? The weapon to some permanence to conservatism is to starve governments of revenue and slash complete programs. Starting a CBC or Canada Council from scratch is a lot harder than giving big funding increases. Somebody should tell Turdeau about Katimavik so kids can go back to getting paid while they smoke weed.
I am the proud owner of one of Kate’s ‘prints’!
Is there still room in the Canada Council on the Arts warehouse that was plugged full of crap-art back in the 80’s?
I remember Reporters trying to get a look at some of the “great works” we were paying for,with little success. So, go ahead, buy up all the Native art, spend millions, some day in the distant future it’s be worth……………SFA.
btw, that artwork at CBC looks like “Dr.Seuss on Acid”.
If their art was any good, they wouldn’t need state funding. Of course, all those darling artistes are friends and children of liberal party hacks.
This isn’t racism?
Melanie Joly, as the responsible minister, will no doubt have learned a thing or two about funnelling government money to one’s cronies from her dear papa, Clement Joly, who was chairman of the federal Liberal finance committee in Quebec before heading the Air Transport Safety Authority.
She’ll also, as minister responsible for the National Capital Commission, be overseeing whatever happens to 24 Sussex. A Montreal Liberal in charge of the prestige construction project of the decade? What could possibly go wrong?
What’s a few billion ere an dere.