The Critic Magazine

Beyond satire

THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE to be seen as devotees of the Muses are having a fine old time squealing about the Proletcult-style despoliation of the arts in Britain, with public funding being withdrawn by a Visigothic Arts Council from their frivolous pleasures and devoted instead to increasing the wattage of the exciting Blackpool lights and encouraging multiracial bones-playing up north.

But all this talk of cultural desertification wilfully ignores the galactic piece of Dadaist performance art that has been evolving before our eyes since the moment in 2016 when

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from The Critic Magazine

The Critic Magazine4 min read
The Final Lap
THE SAN MARINO GRAND PRIX, 1994. THIRTY years ago this May Day. AYRTON SENNA sits on the start line and removes his helmet, which he never usually does. “The helmet hides feelings which cannot be understood,” he once said. Today, he doesn’t bother to
The Critic Magazine3 min read
Fighting Lies With Lies
PROPAGANDA AND DISINFORMATION AREamong the biggest threats facing liberal democracies today. The internet’s promise to democratise information, while partly fulfilled, has further polarised societies by nurturing ignorance and feeding conspiracy theo
The Critic Magazine4 min read
Robert Thicknesse on Opera
YOU KNOW THE STORY, BUT HERE’S a reminder: SCOTTISH WEDDING — THREE DEAD. If any operatic image can elbow out the chesty soprano snuffing it on the bed, it’s got to be the wild-eyed bride of Lammermoor in her blood-spattered wedding dress: little Luc

Related Books & Audiobooks