Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A Town is now being told sell your oil paintings that are never seen by the public.
Well Dover needs to do it to,we have all said it at times that the paintings could be sold off and the the funds could easy pay for new toilets etc the town needs. They are never seen by the Gen public,we are told they are there for the rainy day,well that day has come and gone many times,and yes the paintings are still locked away never to be seen only by the very few at DDC.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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most towns and cities have artefacts and works of art in excess of the space to display them all at the same time.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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To right get rid of the lot
They soled of all the utilities and kept the art,
should have been the other way round
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They must go,but stay in the UK .We then might see some of them,but most of the public do not care one way or the other,but if aske"Would you like to see new toilets in the Town or keep the unseen paintings it would be toilets.
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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Always ingored is the fact that a lot if these things are gifted to the towns, not given to them just to sell on a rainy day, they have no right to sell them on.
If I popped my clogs and gave my collections to the museum/DDC I wouldn't want them sold to pay for a loo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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But your collection would be on show,or you would not do it.
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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Lots of people gift things to museums but don't expect them to be plastered up on the wall, they are there for future generations to use and museums regularly rotate displays.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that's right lots of stuff is under wraps until an appropriate exhibition comes along.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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That will never happen,only once in a life time,and I am still waiting.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Are you going to donate a portrait of you, Vic?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have one Mr Garstin,it will hang in the town hall in years to come longside the other greats of the UK.
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Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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ouch.
DT1- Location: Dover
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I think you're being a bit short sighted Vic.
Surely Marcel Duchamp proves that both the causes of art and toilets are not mutually exclusive.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you I like all of that.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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So let me get this right
Sell art
use money to build/open new toilets
money runs out
new toilets close as the council could only afford to open them by selling of its art collection
new toilets are sold off and developed as something else
So what exactly is gained?
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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Build toilets, man them in daylight hours through the 'season', charge people 20p to use them like on the continent. Simples !
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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If the Town Hall were occasionally open to visitors, and sometimes there was a display of works of art belonging to the Council, I'd willingly donate a pound and some smaller loose coins with it.
I always do this when going to Church.
But the Town Hall is just about always closed to visitors.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There are tours round the Town Hall Alexander, organised by the Dover Society.
Roger
