regeneration of established sites (Tate Modern, London's South Bank) and an equally marvellous creation of new ones (the Sage at Gateshead, the Lowry Centre). We saw rapidly-rising attendance figures at galleries and museums. We saw free admission. We saw the ancient arguments about the inevitable opposition of high and low culture beginning to crumble away. All this means that anyone who wants to respond to Pierre Bourdieu's notions about cultural capital could, if they wished, defend it with the same vigour they might use to defend the economic capital that sits alongside it. In fact the DCMS figures show that cultural capital and economic capital are inextricably linked.from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Andrew Motion attacks government's 'shoot first, aim later' arts policies
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