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Maybe, but the staff utterly misses the point of the NEA controversy. The real questions go something like this: Why did Mapplethorpe, ndependently wealthy, free-spending and high-living, need an NEA grant in the first place? And, should taxpayers' money fund projects that taxpayers don't like or want...
WOULD the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fund Mozart? Given the precedent of the Mapplethorpe-Helms conflagration, we cannot be sure. Would Tipper Gore push for labeling copies of Mozart canons...
Visible at Harvard attests to the capacity of universities to provide alternatives to mainstream galleries and museums. The exhibits of actual works, a feature of museums and galleries, usually depend on the NEA and/or corporations to cover enormous insurance and shipping costs. The use of two slide projectors for Visible is a creative solution to the problem that the university is not free from the political/economic constraints of the Reagan-Bush era. Many of the individuals who participated in this project did so because its organization and format are a critique of "blockbuster exhibitions" often compromised in terms of content...
...NEA controversy began last year when Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and other conservatives in Congress objected to NEA funding of works they considered obscene...
Last week, a House compromise that would have allowed the NEA to award grants without content restrictions was derailed by the Senate Appropriations Committee, which reinstituted an anti-obscenity pledge that artists must sign before they receive grant money...