Below are pics of the entire #quilts, and close-ups them. These were both made by my mom + are in storage at her place in New Jersey. Both would be great for anyone with small children, they'd be great for swaddling aa little one with. The dimensions of the 1st one are 44 x 54 in (112 x 137 in), the 2nd one is 52 x 72 in (132 x 183 cm). If u like either of these ones, or want to inquire about other quilts, send me a msg! I have about a dozen other ones to choose from too! ✨✨✨ #quilt#art#arts
If music thus carries us to heaven, it is because music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
As the row over Baillie Gifford's arts sponsorship gathers pace (Fossil Free Books are trying to end BG's sponsorships due to their involvement with fossil fuel firms), the bigger Q. is as more sponsorship is accused of using taineted money, how are arts & associated cultural events to be funded?
Accusations of greenwashing may be right but what is less developed is an alternative funding model for the arts.
Other than state funding (which seems unlikely) what else is there?
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."