Letters

11 April 2009

Spectator readers respond to recent articles

Liverpool’s legacy

Sir: Andrew Lambirth’s review (Arts, 14 March) of Maggi Hambling’s portraits of George Melly, while full of praise, is strangely critical of the fact that the show, on until 31 May, is at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Melly’s birthplace. His view is that ‘an exhibition of this breadth and importance should be available in the capital city’, but my question is, why?

Has he forgotten already why Liverpool’s work in 2008 has become the benchmark for all future European Capitals of Culture? Also, art lovers live in and visit cities other than London. But above all Lambirth seems to forget that the Walker is the national gallery of the north, part of National Museums Liverpool. Shows like Maggi Hambling’s are part of the reason why.

Phil Redmond
Chairman, National Museums Liverpool and Deputy Chair, Liverpool Culture Company
Liverpool

Correction

Last week’s Spectator included an article by Victoria Floethe about the response in New York to an affair she had with Michael Wolff. Ms Floethe referred to the ‘obviously gleeful revenge toward Michael’ allegedly taken by [Rupert] ‘Murdoch’s paper’ — after which the words Wall Street Journal were wrongly inserted in a production error. The newspaper to which she was referring was, in fact, the New York Post. We regret the misleading impression. The Wall Street Journal was not in any way involved in the story described in her article.

The Page Six gossip column appears in the New York Post, and not the New York Times (as was wrongly stated in the piece thanks to a related production error).

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Anne Wotana Kaye

April 9th, 2009 5:10pm Report this comment

Why have journalists taken to using it simply as a synonym for rival or enemy?
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In reply to M Skeggs' question,
I believe this is just an example of the general dumbing-down of literacy and general education. Our government believe in the saying, "In the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king."

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