Comments on: How sad do you have to be to believe this rubbish? The minute they heard Il-Guy and Jose were in charge, all artists should have known they’d been roundly insulted.

By: carlos bonavia

carlos bonavia — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:09:35 +0000

I wonder, does the new parliament building, whenever it’s ready, have anything to do with government’s decision to remain committed to moving the art gallery?

By: Evarist Saliba

Evarist Saliba — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:21:33 +0000

In reply to Joe Fenech. According to this government's meritocracy standards these individuals are of a superior calibre than Tate experts.

By: Osservatore

Osservatore — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:23:46 +0000

Jose and culture. Nudge nudge, wink wink. Say no more.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:28:05 +0000

In reply to Joe Fenech. With Maltese film production, you always get that uncomfortable feeling of being a voyeur watching the director getting off on that frisson of almost crossing the Xandir's line in the sandpit of censorship, but not quite. Maltese artistic expression boxes itself in with its own rules. And no amount of progressive and liberal voters has changed anything. It makes you wish we had a Tinto Bras or a Sebastian Horsley to shake things up.

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:06:39 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

What about this chef d’oeuvre by Malta’s illustrious theatre director, Noddy Marshall?:

(folks, have a sick bag ready before you view it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrakoklLxVU

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:03:58 +0000

“This would serve as a national showcase to the many works of Maltese artists who were, till now, barely appreciated by the public”

“once an agreement was reached, the project would belong to artists.”

Government pandering to its critics, only it’s got hold of the wrong end of the stick because a) self-styled artists aren’t the only critics of government’s arts policy, or lack of it, b) there isn’t a hope in hell of all artists agreeing on anything to do with art.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:54:45 +0000

Let’s console ourselves with some fine arts.

http://s106148.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ChillTonic300.jpg

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And here’s Mr Earl Grey himself http://www.aaawt.com/html/bee_ads/aug_12/item/images/Trade%20Sign,%20Groves%20Tastless%20Chill%20Tonic_661-23.jpg

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:50:55 +0000

What can one expect when the minister is a yokel and most cultural administrators are simply party girls and boys who know nothing about the arts? This is not new, but under Labour things get much worse.

When you see (I’ll mention a few):

1) Jason Micallef (a total nobody and total ignoramus) chairing the V18 committee

2) Sigmund Mifsud (a semi-professional musician by international standards) being appointed chairman of the National Orchestra (as poor as it may be) and conductor of a Gozo theatre

3) a certain Manuel Spagnol (a quasi-illiterate and semi-professional musician from Birgu) who resigned from the National Orchestra to take on a head-teacher’s job at the Johann Strauss School of Music’s Marsa branch

4) Albert Marshall (a nobody who spent a couple of years doing some work for a communitarian radio in Australia) chairman of the Malta Council for Culture and Art.

….what else is there to say?

By: Not Henley and Partners

Not Henley and Partners — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:49:43 +0000

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