Pseudo art

While agreeing with Aonghas MacNeacail (Letters, 27 July) regarding the social benefits to be derived from the arts proper, I feel there is a lot of pseudo art amounting to little more than a joke, such as unmade beds and piles of bricks, that is ripe for pruning.

In fact, much of government money is spent on sport, culture, art and music - an area with the appropriate acronym of "Scam" - which is of no benefit to anyone other than the luvvies who derive their living from peddling this twaddle.

Surely they could do that just as well, and at their own expense, from down a coal mine - if only to marvel at the wonder of it all.

MALCOLM PARKIN

Gamekeepers Road

Kinnesswood, Kinross