Word: nea
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Stein, who has sat on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) says she has always been very pleased with the high calibre of work submitted to the NEA by Boston filmmakers...
...odds are that under Radice's stewardship, anything that speaks of sex or politics -- or, worst of all, both -- can go whistle. In fact, she has canceled two grants for projects at university art galleries that had already been approved by an 11-to-1 vote of the NEA's decidedly unradical advisory council. One, for $10,000, was for "Corporal Politics," a show proposed by the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, containing images of sexual organs. The cancellation, Radice claimed, was based solely on "artistic merit...
...third element that seems bound to fuel further controversy over the NEA is a verdict just handed down by a federal court in Los Angeles. In 1990 Frohnmayer, hoping to mollify the Republican right, introduced a clause requiring "general standards of decency" as a basis for NEA grants. On that standard, four performance artists (Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck and Tim Miller) saw their applications for grants rejected and sued the NEA. Last week Judge A. Wallace Tashima struck down the "decency" clause as vague and unconstitutional. The government, he said, does not have "free rein to impose ( whatever...
...arts and that 80% feel "the arts need to operate freely with a minimum of government control." Tell that to the self-appointed political guardians of American virtue. Pincered between them and the extremists who think any denial of a grant to "experimental" art is cultural fascism, the NEA faces plenty of troubles ahead in this election year...
Right-wing talk of moral values spells trouble for the NEA...