Chatting with an artist friend resident across the ocean:
Friend: What do you know of the museum that is being built?
Me: Nothing. A museum is being built?
Friend: Yes, I heard this from a couple of sources, more than once. […] Money, I heard, is already set aside for this.
Me: (in disbelief)…for fine art?
Friend: Yes.
Me: Well, I heard the same thing a few years ago when [a different government] came into office. Then there was talk about transforming the area between Hadfield Street and Homestretch Avenue into a complex of dedicated arts buildings, but nothing came of that.
Our conversation continued. I wondered then, and I wonder now, what is the likelihood that the arts of Guyana could be heavily invested in with multiple state-of-the-art fit-for-purpose buildings?
