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Sat 08 Aug 2010Artists set good example for wider economy
Artists take pride in what is well made. Our financial system needs to return to such values, writes DECLAN KIBERD
THE CALLS issued after the Farmleigh conference last autumn to “monetise the arts” must have seemed strange to painters, writers and musicians who live on or below the poverty line. Some must have been astonished at the suggestion that an economic revival might base itself on our artistic community.
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