--- "Adam C. Lipscomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dean wrote:
> > The first thing I found applicable (on just the
> > *first* amendment, mind you) after doing a google
> > search was a page done by the NEA, the guys who
> use
> > our tax dollars to make pictures of a whip up a
> guy's
> > *ass* and call it art.
>
> Nice inflammatory rhetoric, but no cigar. The NEA
> does not produce art. It
> provides grants to artists and organizations that
> create, perform and
> exhibit art. Some - a tiny fraction - are given to
> artists like Karen
> Findlay (a performance artist whose talent seems to
> escape me). The lion's
> share of their money goes to symphony orchestras,
> community theatres,
> museums and the like. The cost to you, as a citizen
> for this? A measly
> $0.35 each year according to the last estimate I ran
> across. Dean, I'll pay
> your share - Hell, I'll buy you a beer, we'll call
> it even and you can be
> guilt free about the NEA for 10 years!
>
> The National Endowment for the Arts and the National
> Endowment for the
> Humanities serve a function in our society - they
> ensure that we as a people
> do not lose touch with the artistic history of our
> culture, and that we can
> learn more about ourselves by keeping that contact.
>
> You may object to some art exhibitions funded by the
> NEA, and you're more
> than free to do so. Just make sure you get your
> facts straight before you
> rant about it.
>
> BTW, I think Robert Mapplethorpe has made some damn
> fine art.
>
This must be what it's like when I jump up and down on
top of someone else for making an off the cuff remark.
Thanks Adam, point taken. ;)
dean
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