On Bandwagons

The problems of funding art during times of revolution

Revolutions tend to breed new and brutal forms of self-critique. One of the more complicated recent debates about the so-called Arab Spring – beyond the anguish of honouring the dead or the difficulty of drafting a new political order – concerns the efficacy, accountability and integrity of art in revolutionary times.


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