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Conservative columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak predict that Finley, whose work has been supported in the past by three NEA grants ($22,000 in total awards), will be the next target of outrage -- and opportunity -- for enemies of the endowment's funding. Finley, the columnists warned, could become "the Mapplethorpe case of 1990" if her latest request for support is approved. Last week that suggestion of scandal was enough to shake the National Council on the Arts, the beleaguered body that oversees grants recommended by NEA panels. The council voted to postpone until August its decision on all grant...
...redoubt of sober establishment culture. "My work is not about entertainment," she says. "People usually leave my shows crying." After leaving one of them, her grandmother sent her a note. It was a mixed review that could sum up the dilemma that any unbridled artist poses for the NEA. "She said that I was talented," Finley recalls, "but also a toiletmouth...
...Donnybrook over the continued existence of the NEA began last year with the funding of an exhibition of Mapplethorpe's photographs, has ramified immensely since then, and is now coming to a head. Helms' pressure has already forced the NEA to make arts-grant recipients pledge that they will do nothing obscene or indecent on Government money. Sometime in June the NEA's reauthorization and funding bills go to the House floor, where a vocal ultra- conservative rump, led by California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, will attempt to abolish the agency. Since the House will probably not go along -- George Bush...
Leading the NEA's defense is Democratic Congressman Pat Williams of Montana, who wants to reauthorize the NEA for another five years and leave questions of obscenity to the courts. "As long as the Federal Government can support the arts without interfering with their content . . ." says Williams, "government can indeed play a meaningful part in trying to encourage the arts . . . We know pornography when we see it, but the freedom to create is invisible...
...There's been enough noise and enough absurditygenerated that it will be removed," Brustein said."But there is also sufficent anger from theAmerican people about the free spirited artistthat I can see the NEA watered-down ordismantled...