The art fund (presumably a major source of institutional art sponsorship) has been perverted and corrupted by modernism and the Turner Prize, which the speaker says he must work to expose by 'calling out the emperor's new clothes.'

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Speaker

Unknown Speaker (Lecturer)

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the art fund has been perverted by it we need I really do think uh the boy I will see myself in that role to call out the emperor's new clothes

Source

The Fall of Western Art & Culture by David StarkeyDavid Starkey Talks
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:42:29 AM

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