Art Causes Debate Shocker

Always good to get a reminder that art is not celebration or toeing the line - it is about raising questions and getting folk thinking and talking. Such is the fervour around things creative in D+G that even the local press is joining in - there has been an interesting thread in the Dumfries Standard over the last week.....starting with this last Friday:

This was followed yesterday by this:

.....an interesting, but not altogether convincing, argument that the Plane Stanes performance area and Midsteeple might be pressed into service as a border checkpoint in an self-governing Scotland.

For more more hot gossip on currency issues readers might be interested to hear from BBC Scotlandshire - whose Och Aye the News is one of the funniest things on the interweb at the moment:

Here is their take on the currency issue

Brilliant that we are all talking about this stuff rather than Britains Got Talent though..... bring it on! What are you thinking Commonty folk?

STOP PRESS!!! - it goes on ...in your new place for Arts Criticism - The Standard (good for them!)