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Members of law enforcement rest beneath Robert Walter Weir s painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims (around 1837) in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In the minutes and hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC yesterday, leading art world figures took to social media to express their anger and dismay at scenes including videos showing police opening barricades to rioters and posing for selfies with perpetrators.
Some commentators stressed the contrast between the law enforcement reaction to the mob breaking into the Capitol and the massive show of police force for Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the capital last year. The US artist Dread Scott summed up the sentiment in an Instagram story: “People in DC protesting the police lynching of George Floyd get maced and beaten. Fascists storming the US Capitol during an attempted coup get a welcome mat. Any questions?”
Is computer-assisted decision-making the way to go? Zoonar/Alamy Stock Photo
Why are some organisations worth saving and others not, post the ravages of Covid-19? A software tool, Spotlight, developed by the Tory MP Michael Gove’s office which claims to bring “greater confidence, efficiency and speed to decision-making” has been used to vet applications for the government’s Covid-19 Cultural Recovery Fund, so far helping to allocate more than £1bn of the £1.57bn pot. But this algorithm-based approach seems to have left many struggling arts organisations out in the cold.
The main bodies charged with overseeing the process Arts Council England (ACE), the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and Historic England (HE) confirmed they used Spotlight, which was introduced last summer across government departments issuing Covid-19 bailouts. The software is an “online due diligence tool for use before and during the grant application… to assure those rec