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...credit must be given where credit is due: The Cure are a classic. In 1976, they arose in the wake of the punk rock revolution. Fronted by Robert Smith and featuring an ever-changing line-up, The Cure quickly gained fame and have been cited in countless “influenced by” lists. With their dark subject matter, gloomy and haunting melodies, and tormented image, they were branded as “gothic,” a label Smith constantly hopes to shun. Accordingly, the band has progressively gained a much more mainstream sound. With...
...Endowment today is a ghost of what it once was and could have been. The long, slow death began in 1989, when controversy erupted over two exhibitions of work from Andres Serrano and the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Both had been funded indirectly by grants from the NEA—the former through the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and the latter through the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania—and both were shocking and blasphemous (phalluses and crosses dunked in urine). Anti-NEA vitriol flooded congressional mailboxes. The director of the Southeastern Center, Ted Potter...
...President’s official memorial in Washington D.C., and a true testament to the belief of John F. Kennedy ’40 that progress in the arts is more than valuable—it is utterly integral to progress as a nation. Paying tribute to the poet Robert Frost less than a month before his assassination, Kennedy declared: “I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist...
...distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe for our problems than actually to solve them...
Schuller, Robert •son is ousted from TV ministry...