The Provocation, The Manifesto The Bold Statement “ We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight ... all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice” . Marianetti 1909 Hargreaves in Brown (2002) states we need to dismantle and reconstruct the old institutions - a little like Marinetti and his fellow Futurists, … the traditional educational system, Hargreaves believes must be replaced with a polymorphic education provision, an infinite variety of multiple forms of teaching and learning. - Bold indeed. Zing Tummm. ‘All schools should be art schools.’ This was the call from artist Bob & Roberta Smith when he stood against Michael Gove at the General Election in May 2015, in protest against what he termed the Coalition’s devaluation of arts education. Whether or not you agree with his manifesto, a Turner Prize nominee running against a former Education Secretary gives us some idea of how politicised the future of the arts in ou...