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'Artists of the Resistance'

10/12/2010 Dear Guardian letters Len McCluskey calls for a "broad strike movement" to stop the coalition's  "explicitly ideological" programme of cuts. ('Unions Warn of Massive Wave of Strikes', Guardian 19 December 2010) This will happen. Government cuts are  decimating education, welfare, health, sports and the arts. We are told t; that they are as inevitable as the rain; that the only choice we have is between  music classes for our kids or care for our elderly. We need both and do not  accept that jobs, services and the quality of life have to be jettisoned for  the greed of those who are asked to sacrifice nothing. Cutbacks in the arts  mean that access will be limited to those who have the money to pay while  many who work in the arts will lose their jobs.  The closing of public  libraries is the most obvious example. They are where literature, art and culture are available to everyone without charge. Some authorities are already selling the

FPS Winter Exhibition 2010: Review by Philip Worth

FPS Winter Exhibition 2010  ‘Place’, South Kensington  The selection by FPS of Campbells of London as the venue for their winter exhibition was an inspiration.  To begin with, its location is a plus.  The whole area within a substantial radius of South Kensington station has a terrific buzz.  It contains many of the world’s outstanding museums, there is the Royal Albert Hall with its summer music fest a bit further up the road, there are broad, elegant boulevards but also the unexpected, narrow side streets and alley ways in which central London specialises which seem to jump out at you and tempt you to explore and where you can discover the only shop in the UK which specialises in the sale of bagpipes (well, maybe I made that one up, but you get the gist!) – and, finally, mention could be made of some of the most mouth-watering eating places in the entire metropolis.             At the hub of this exhilarating locale is Campbells Of London, an artist’s dream of an establishment.  It