[rollei_list] Re: OT Mapplethorpe (was Re: Re:)
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:48:40 -0500
This portion of Matt's discussion is important to /rememberconsider and I am
in complete agreement with it:
"It's horribly short-sighted to think the only culture that should be
supported in this country is that which appeals to the largest possible
audience. It's usually the least cojent, least compelling, least
confrontational and the least expansive. The gutting of the National
Endowment of the Arts due to conservative's objections over a small handful
of work by a small handful of artists has done nothing good for the current
state of the arts in this country."
Eric Goldstein
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On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> At 07:46 PM 3/7/2010, Matthew Phillips/HSC/VCU wrote:
>
> Interesting point of view. Utterly wrong historically, but certainly
>> reinforces the usual conservative talking points.
>>
>>
> Well, my source is the testimony presented to Congress in a eries of
> Hearings. I would not be surprised to learn that the NEA told fibs to
> Congress. But the NEA claimed they paid Mapplethorpe during his life and
> purchased prints from his estate after his death. So, if this is "utterly
> wrong historically", it is because the NEA can't get their facts right.
>
> This was not a conservative talking point, incidentally: conservatives in
> the US abandoned all regard for the NEA decades back and expected no less.
> The storm of protest came from mainstream (that is, liberal to far-left)
> churches. The conservatives pretty much sat this out while the NEA crawled
> to the Churches. I cannot recall a single conservative politician who spoke
> up on the matter, and even Rush Limbaugh blew it off with, "what else could
> you expect from the NEA?"
>
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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