I CANT BELIEVE IT - CONTEMPORARY MOROCCAN ART HAS WON ME OVER;
Jack Lang (75 years) was our cultural Minister under a couple of socialist governments. I always admired him and perhaps even more so today, as you will see. Apart from changing the contemporary art scene in France, he also helped theatrical creators, developed new cultural events such as the "Fête de la Musique", 1982, "Patrimony days and open visits" in 1984, the "Cinema festival" in 1985 and the "Desire to read" in 1989. Along with all this, he put into place more than 20 contemporary art centres, acquired some fabulous paintings (Pierre Soulages, Pierre Aelchinsky, Daniel Buren just to name a few) and helped young designers such as Philippe Starck and others. From my point of view he was a very outright and forth going Minister. I happened to sit next to him at the Theatre some months ago and was disappointed that he looked bored and left at interval! He was named President of the Arab Institute not so long ago. I went along to the exhibitio