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Clinton's plan would also increase funding for two controversial national grant programs, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The President has budgeted $150 million for each...
Given the recent public controversy over the NEH and NEA-and even proposals to abolish the two grant agencies--Nixon calls the appropriation proposals "significant...
Performance artist Karen Finley, who recently lost a Supreme Court case on a law requiring NEA grants to adhere to decency standards, has a new show, The Return of the Chocolate-Smeared Woman...
Today's Supreme Court ruling upholding Congress's "decency" requirement in NEA arts funding will come as a relief to the arts organization. "This allows the NEA to move beyond a controversy over a handful of artists which threatened to destroy the institution," says TIME correspondent Daniel Levy. "Most NEA money is spent funding uncontroversial local art projects, and people trying to eliminate the NEA will find it more difficult to whip up emotions over that...
...Justices ruled today that by instructing the NEA to consider decency as well as artistic merit in making grants, Congress had not infringed on the First Amendment rights of artists. In other words, while the government can't interfere with complainant Karen Finley's right to smear chocolate over her naked body in the name of art, it's not obliged to pay for her Hershey bars either...