[lit-ideas] Re: public subsidy for the arts?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:04:15 +0100
Friday, October 21, 2005, 11:41:04 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
EY> Now I'm not so sure. Having learned more about how arts are
EY> administered in the US, I'm starting to feel the whole thing
EY> should be stopped. Few grants go to individual artists; instead,
EY> the local culture-vulture gets the funds and doles them out to
EY> his or her buddies.
Bad -- also fairly typical, I bet.
EY> Now that I know a little more about the scope of the corruption
EY> and grant-hogging going on in the art world, I think it might be
EY> better to de-fund everything. Reset the mechanism. Start again in
EY> a couple years with a brand new granting agency.
But that's different from opposing all grants, as many (most?) people
opposed to the NEA do.
Judy
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