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SO the rumours of the demise of Scottish Arts Council were greatly exaggerated, not least by me. For the foreseeable future the SAC will soldier on whilst its erstwhile chairman James Boyle leads a new "cultural commission" with the brief to produce a radical plan to reshape the arts in Scotland. It is, says Frank McAveety, the culture minister, a "once in a generation opportunity", though we are unlikely to see the fruits of Boyle's deliberations until 2007 at the earliest.
Amongst the keepers of the nation's cultural heritage, there was widespread approval for the review and of Boyle's appointment. The media, however, which had been bracing itself for months for a putsch, was less impressed. Joyce McMillan, interviewed in the Hootsmon, of which she is theatre critic, said the Scottish Executive had "laboured and brought forth a mouse. They are not interested in responding to artists. I think this could cause some kind of serious revolt."See the full content of this document
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Losing the Art of Truth
Not for the first time I fear McMillan is hyperventilating. What she did not mention, either in the Hootsmon or on Guid Mornin' Teuchters, was that she was author of an earlier cultural review. This is rather typical of contemporary Scotland where journalists are adept at assuming a variety of guises. Take my dear friend Magnus Linklater. He contributed a column to The Times a...
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