Forty six years ago a seminal art show was held during the Edinburgh Festival. Strategy: Get Arts (the title is a palindrome) ran for the summer of 1970 at the Edinburgh College of Art, conceived by Richard Demarco and the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, and featured, among other things, German artists staging a feast, a room full of mist created by Gotthard Graubner, and Joseph Beuys' notable work: 24 sledges falling out of the back of a VW van.
The show sprung to mind because of something swirling in the Scottish Government which may well have a profound impact on cultural policy in the next five years of the new Parliament. No, not a room full of mist. But the arts in Scotland are about to get a new strategy.