Writer & activist Darcus Howe gets some of
the truth out despite the "impartial" BBC:
http://youtu.be/biJgILxGK0o

It's nice there's proper discussion happening here again - let's have some more!

I’m going to enter a remix competition every month, from Aug 2011 to Aug 2012.
I’m 54 years old and although I’m musically reasonably deft I know little about the culture in which I’m attempting to intervene.
I know none of the specialised vocabulary, can’t distinguish genres and although I understand what is being said, just about, I don’t speak the language in which posts or comments on this kind of work are framed.
Each of my remixes will be posted here, with a link back to the original track.
My nom de remix is mickiewicz."
The first one is here:
 
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/  
cheers
michael

I think it's an interesting article and I learned something from it. As people have pointed out the question of the political is probably a great deal more nuanced than is suggested, but it is -isn't it? -a piece of journalism rather than an academic article and I quite like a little sting in the tail to consider.
What does disappoint me slightly is the lack of mention of Furtherfield, a long standing and distinguished player (and arguably now, after the cuts massacre, the most important one) in the capital and no stranger to Rhizome. Doubly so since if the writer was in Manor House they were all of five minutes walk away from a chat with Ruth (white, admittedly, but female the last time I saw her) or Marc, both of whose address books are voluminous and who could have pointed her to lots of interesting stuff, including a more diverse (in the ethnic, gender &c sense) group of artists...

Hmmm -over 1500 images at an average of $35 for 5 gives $10,500.
Two pieces of writing for each of the 31 selected images at $10 per submission gives $610 so the selected images alone pay for any prizes and if more writers submit that's lots of lovely surplus.
No wonder that Ms O'Neill describes herself as an entrepreneur.
Artists and photographers should be paid for the work they produce not pay to have it displayed It's not always possible of course, in the real world, but what is really objectionable is this sort of parasitism...