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Saying that a federal law prohibiting the funding of "obscene" art work constitutes censorship, a Harvard music professor resigned as co-chair of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) music panel late last week...
...decision followed last summer's dispute over two shows supported by the NEA and the subsequent action by Congress forbidding the endowment to promote "obscene" art. By snubbing the AIDS exhibit, Frohnmayer appeared to be signaling that the NEA would now shy away from controversial work. That led to a storm of criticism from the art world and a decision by conductor Leonard Bernstein to refuse a White House offer of a 1990 National Medal of Arts. Just hours before the show was to open last week, Frohnmayer reversed himself, agreeing to release the grant. The offending catalog, however...
...NEA funding] is cut, it just means lesspublic exhibitions and specials," Walsh said. "Idon't speculate any change in our policy. We willcontinue to apply for government money as always...
University art museums received only 16 grantsfrom the NEA in the past four years, amounting to$300,000, according development officer SusanKany. The ART receives $250,00 each year,totalling 5 percent of its budget, according toBrustein...
University art experts said the newrestrictions would have an impact on exhibits andshows here because Harvard will refuse to complywith them--and thus lose NEA funding...