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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Sir Anish Kapoor takes aim at ‘criminal’ assault on arts

SIR Anish Kapoor has launched a broadside at “the assault on the arts in the school curriculum”, claiming it is “nothing short of criminal”. “This drift to small-nation, small-minded nationalism… is reminiscent of fascistic governments of recent times who attempted to control our imagined inner selves,” he argues.

Sir Anish, who lives in London and is one of Britain’s foremost sculptors, blasted what he described as “the current UK Government’s sinister and systematic attempt to dismantle the Keynesian project which set up ‘arts for all’.

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