Making Olympians out of artists

Wrinkled forehead:

There is something oddly official about this particular idea. If an artist wants to create something really negative about a commercial sponsor of the games, will it pass the committee? It is also quite worrying that after the Artists Taking the Lead was launched, the Culture Minister Barbara Follet pronounced that now people will finally stop asking her what the Cultural Olympiad is. Was she not able to articulate it before the first of the 10 projects was launched? There seems to be a gap in thinking here.