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  The gallery is all very well-but you can't buy arty fartiness-you can throw as much money at a place as you like,but if it ain't cool it ain't art. Rye and Hastings have cracked it,with natural development-but along the way they have had to pay the price of drop outs and drug infestation. They are trying to do it in Folkestone and just because you paint all the buildings like Balamori and you PAY high profile artists to do stuff, that doesn't mean it's going to become the art centre of the universe...and this in a town with an already significant drug problem. I'm sure the Turner at Margate will work-but the town musn't forget its roots. They need to retain the town's traditional diversification and continue with arcades, fish and chips,candy floss,jellied eels,kiss me quick hats,pedlows and grubby post cards. Thank goodness they are trying to revive Dreamland-now that would be something-it wouldn't eclipse the 'Fighting Temaraire' -but it would sort local tourism,completing a marvellous visitor's package and avoid the down side of arty farty.

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