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The Skinny | No 85 – Portrait of the Artist With No Business IQ
4 May 2021, 8:39am
What are we skinning? Culture Minister Jose Herrera’s assertion that artists are not in possession of a ‘business IQ’.
Why are we skinning it? Because it’s precisely the kind of avoidable gaffe that is par for the course for our little weekly poundshop-Socratic back and forth.
To be fair, the statement seems intuitively correct to me – artists are not businessmen, isn’t that the myth? Yes, precisely: it’s the myth, the cliche... an overgeneralisation a culture minister should be wary of propagating, let alone spouting in public.