Marseille is a haven for artists and progressives. How could it be on the cusp of far-right rule?
Mary Fitzgerald
The more artists and progressives you’ve got around the further far right your views are driven…..
Marseille is a haven for artists and progressives. How could it be on the cusp of far-right rule?
Mary Fitzgerald
The more artists and progressives you’ve got around the further far right your views are driven…..
Isn’t it more the other way? As the place has more progressives the centre looks more right wing to them even the those in the centre haven’t changed their (political) position. Admittedly they’re more likely to be less tolerant of progressives, but that is healthy and not right wing.
Isn’t it also a haven for criminals and third world scum? If I had to deal with that and artists as well I’d be voting far right.
She answers her own question:
France’s coolest city has been shaped by immigration…
My ex’s father was an elected FN representative in Marseilles municipal politics in the 90s. FN now RN has long had a strong showing in Marseilles. So by definition, it can’t be far-right. At best, centre-right. And I’m pretty sure FN was “ruling” (coalition?) in Marseilles at one point. FN was also very popular when I was living in Dept Nord at the end of the 00s. So you can’t really call RN “far-right” anywhere in France. “Far” would imply fringe with little support. They certainly don’t lack widespread support. Now FI …
As I’m sure others have pointed out, ‘progressive’ politicians inviting the third world’s worst people to live among one’s children tends to concentrate one’s mind.
Artists, who gives a fuck? Not that most of them really are artists. I’d like to live next door to a modern Turner, to be honest. Amazing paintings – great Turner and Constable exhibition currently on at Tate Britain. Tracey Emin, or Rothko – no ta.
Artists ‘celebrating’ ‘diversity’ as your family is attacked and raped and heroin is sold outside your house? Now I give a fuck.
Pretty sure there was an Austrian artist who was fairly right-of-centre…
Adolf was a socialist. He even said so himself.
Yep. The Left tries to tar the Right with Hitler. He was one of them.
As a Parisian friend used to joke (in the late ’90s)
Q. If you travel due south from Paris, what’s the first african city y you’ll reach?
A. Marseille
I would have said Lyon, first. Although Lyon has challengers
And of course, that’s only if you’re setting out from. the 13th arrondissement.
Today the joke is redundant…
Of course it had to be “far-right”. I suspect if she was giving road directions she would tell people to turn “left” or “far-right”.
Nah – it would be “turn centrist”, “carry straight on” or “turn far-right”
Turn left at the burning vape shop. Carry straight on past the stabbing. Take a slight right at the empty supermarket. Keep left at the fly-tipped rubbish. You have reached your destination.
Silly lefties. Art belongs to us.
Borrowed by Aphex Twin.
Artists go where it’s cheap, and maybe where there’s something interesting to paint. If you’re making music, painting, writing, shooting films, you don’t need to be in a fancy place. You only need to be within easy transportation of a fancy place when you come to sell it.
Damien Hirst’s big studio is out near Stroud. Tracey Emin is in Margate. Close enough to do a delivery to London and turn up for hobnobbing, but saves a packet over London.