Word: nea
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...debate focused on a current Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of indecency restrictions on grants issued by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA...
...Hunter, a professor at City University of New York (CUNY) Law School, explained how the Supreme Court case emerged from the denial of NEA grants to four performance artists, including Finley, in 1990 due to the content of their work...
...denials were issued under a congressional law enacted in 1990 requiring artists to maintain certain "standards of decency" to qualify for NEA funding. The law was challenged by the four artists and the National Association of Artists Organizations, and was ruled unconstitutional in district and circuit courts...
Hughes and the three other artists successfully challenged the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1990, after their individual grants were rescinded. But the Clinton administration appealed the federal appeals court ruling that the decency clause violated the First Amendment and could lead to "arbitrary and discriminatory" restrictions...
...called the NEA, which no longer has moneyto give individual grants, a "decimatedinstitution...