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“Do you still feel responsibility only to yourself or do you feel more publicly responsible because of the questions and the context that we’re talking about?” “I think the thing that makes public art bad is when it becomes propaganda,” Mr Shawky responded, referring to recent Egyptian public art. Mr Marlow then returned to Mr Craig-Martin’s discussion of the permanent and the temporary. He asked: “Should permanent commissions be questioned now much more than they were in the past?” Mr Craig-Martin said: “One can’t underestimate how difficult it is to make things that are permanent, that are worth being permanent. I think it’s an enormous responsibility but it’s also incredibly difficult to produce something that will have public resonance over time.” 81