Word: nea
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BOSTON--The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) rejected a grant for an exhibit at the Institute for Contemporary Art, which had recently displayed photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, prompting charges from the museum that the NEA caved in to political pressure...
...NEA chair John E. Frohnmayer told Ross yesterday that he was rejecting a $40,000 grant to fund an exhibit by Los Angeles mixed-media artist Mike Kelley. The grant had been approved by an NEA selection panel...
Falck said NEA policy prevented the organization from saying why it rejected the grant, out of consideration of the artist's privacy...
...General Counsel Daniel Steiner said that the University was undecided about whether it would sign an "anti-obscenity" pledge to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. An amendment, proposed by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and passed by Congress last year, requires all beneficiaries of NEA grants to sign a statement affirming that they will not use the money for art that is deemed obscene...
Steiner said the University has not yet signed the pledge, but he said that Harvard--which receives $200,000 annually from the NEA--would not rule that possibility out. Similarly, officials at the American Repertory Theatre said that the theatre will not decide whether to accept or reject about $18,000 worth of funds until "the very last minute...