In the loop
This is the edited text of a speech given in June at the annual dinner of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
"Anthony Burgess wrote 'There can be no art till craft has been mastered. Art must be dangerous. Once it has ceased to be dangerous it is no use'. Burgess was born a century ago, 1917 – the year that Marcel Duchamp changed forever the face of urinals. His tiresome schoolboy jest has spawned numberless hackneyed imitations which are far from dangerous. And no use."
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