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...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...
Ever since the National Endowment for the Arts stirred a ruckus by funding an exhibition of photographs with explicitly homosexual themes by Robert Mapplethorpe, NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer has ducked public appearances. Last week he testified to a commission probing the NEA's grant policies. Claiming that a display that "leads to confrontation . . . would not be appropriate for public funding," he came up with an outrageous example. He suggested that a photograph of Holocaust victims displayed "in the entrance of a museum where all would have to confront it, whether they chose to or not," might...
NONE OF THE truly offensive people in America apply for NEA grants anyway. Andrew Dice Clay doesn't need government money; the public is giving him plenty. And if the public shells out millions to hear, "Robin Leach? I fucked him," on the big screen in Dolby stereo, it appears that community standards are pretty...
While it is okay for the government to fund a certain project to achieve certain goals, and to place restrictions on the use of public money, limiting uses for NEA money is counterproductive. The NEA was not established to fight offensive art, but instead to promote creative art. Truly creative artists often lack money and studio space, and the NEA makes it possible for much otherwise wasted talent to be used for the benefit of society...