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...fact that the National Endowment for the Arts has little to do with the collapse of the American family, for instance, does not prevent Buchanan from announcing that if he is elected, "the first week I'm going to walk out of that White House down to the NEA. I'm going to padlock the place and fumigate...
...distributed $3 million to 3,000 artists, helping pay for such works as Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston's 1990 film about transsexuals and drag queens. The group has also aggressively battled cuts in federal arts funding, taking part, for example, in a successful 1990 lawsuit to prevent the nea from denying funding to artists just because their work is perceived by some as offensive...
Even when she gives congressional budgeting a brief tongue-lashing for the NEA's funding predicament, Wendy demurs rather than presenting herself as an authority. She lowers her voice as if to acknowledge a tacit understanding of what she is about to say. "You know what theater politics are like," she pines, leaning toward the front row, "so rather than blame the Newts of this world I look internally and ask what the liberals did wrong." She knows she's preaching to the converted and can get away with criticizing her own kind...
Tempers flared last Thursday night in Agassiz Theatre as participants in the First-year Arts Program (FAP) discussed issues like the "Piss Christ" exhibit at the NEA, a photograph of a crucifix dipped in urine...
CULTURE MAY NOT DISAPPEAR ALONG with the NEA, but it certainly will be weakened by funding cuts. MEGHAN GROSSCUP, age 15 Villa Park, Illinois AOL: MizSaigon1...