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I feel there is an undercurrent connecting the debate initiated by Jon Bowen’s letter ‘Intellectual Bankruptcy’ (a-n Magazine, May 2010) and Sarah Rowles’ ‘Art for All? Radical pedagogy vs. a desire for education’ (a-n Magazine, July/August 2010).

Glad to see that a-n is giving space to debate the activism of Liberate Tate and the relationship between oil, art and sponsorship (a-n Magazine,September 2010).

As a professional gambit, the independent artist and the freelance arts professional has always benefited from a degree of flexibility, responsiveness and even spontaneity and reinvention when negotiating their engagement within the visual arts sector.

In response to Stephen Black’s letter (a-n Magazine, September 2010).

Did Cathy Lomax actually say, “Cuts basically mean that people that don’t have a privileged background will not be able to make art” (‘Reflections on the arts funding crisis’, a-n Magazine, September 2010)?

In the lead up to the Government Comprehensive Spending Review, the proposed closure of the UK Film Council and The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council was communicated to most through an announcement in The Guardian in July¹.