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[israel museum, jerusalem]<http://www.imjnet.org.il> Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources and Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Tel: 972-2-6708064 Cell: 972-54-6558768 Fax: 972-2-6771340 akes...@imj.org.il [Israel Museum, Jerusalem] <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Museum-Jerusalem/5777654412> The Israel Museum, Jerusalem <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israel-Museum-Jerusalem/5777654412> www.imj.org.il<http://www.imj.org.il> ________________________________ With so many mind bogglingly terrible things unfolding now, NEA may seem a small potato but it matters alot, far in excess of the money it spends. Please check out the American for the Arts petition and send around to anyone you know to ask people sign to preserve the NEA: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/preserve-national-endowment-arts-and-national-endowment-humanities Politicians in our time have mostly not been defenders of the arts. This was not always so. Perhaps education was better in former times. In the recent past, our leaders certainly had an appreciation for the arts. Unlike our current president, John F. Kennedy was an incredible orator (and writer). His eulogy for Robert Frost is a beautiful piece of work. "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth... In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society - in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope." Winston Churchill: "The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them....Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due." - David -- David Wilk - Booktrix Creative Management Partners LLC
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