Fintan O’Toole, literary editor of the Irish Times, calls for a “national arts strike” to extort further cash from the taxpayer. “The public has to be reminded that it really does care,” says he. And until more wallets land on the bonfire of publicly funded art, the nation’s creative titans should “close the arts centres” and “hold no poetry readings.”
There is no downside to closing the art centers and holding no poetry readings.
don’t threaten us with a good time
Maybe he should just join the “Starving Artists of Buffalo”, although they may have already succumbed to their conditions
In the absence of Poetry readings the Irish economy will likely fluorish.
No pottery readings? Why, that would be the end of archaeology as we know it! Oh, wait… sorry, never mind. Geez, I’m going to have to read more carefully.