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HUGHES TRIES HARD TO CONVINCE US that the NEA is critical to our culture. But when all is said and done, he fails to show why Catholics--to name just one group--ought to be forced to pay for "art" that defames their religion. His defense of the indefensible is all the more incredible given his recently published book on the sorry state of our culture. Will the real Robert Hughes please stand up? WILLIAM A. DONOHUE, President Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights New York City...
ROBERT HUGHES' ATTACK ON CRITICS OF the NEA and NEH has an all too familiar ring. In its partisanship and preference for diatribe over argument, it resembles much of what today passes for scholarship and sometimes art. While a case can be made for preserving the endowments, Hughes' shallow, sneering polemic does it little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton...
ROBERT HUGHES' COVER STORY WAS JUST what we all needed to hear. Hughes is one of our most gifted polemicists. This is the kind of message the NEA, in its attempts to point up the "usefulness'' of art, has so miserably failed to get across to the American public. I think most of us who work in the arts feel the ground slipping from under our feet day in and day out. As I write this, I'm looking across the street at the Metropolitan Opera House. Is it really too much of a stretch to imagine it 20 years...
...Senator Spencer Abraham proposes to privatize the national endowments. He would put the responsibility for their funding in the hands of those best able to judge and appreciate artistic endeavor, namely the arts community itself. Senator Abraham challenges the same entertainers who visited Washington this year, lobbying for increased NEA funding, to produce a series of benefit concerts and records while utilizing traditional fund-raising approaches to fund a privatized endowment...
...including licensing the revenue generated by many of its popular programs. After all, the Discovery Channel, Mind Extension University, the Learning Channel and the Arts & Entertainment Network, as well as C-SPAN, all survive and compete with PBS without tax subsidy. Alice Marquis reminds us that in 1973 the NEA issued a $5,000 grant to author Erica Jong to help her finish writing the novel Fear of Flying. How much could the endowment have received if it had requested a percentage of the royalties for putting up seed money for the work, which went on to become a huge...