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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2200)	12/29/2000 7:01:41 AM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

The NEA convened panels of working artists to make grant decisions. These "peer panels" looked at applications and made decisions based solely on artistic merit. So novelists weighed the work of other novelists, choreographers looked at choreographers, etc. The government had nothing to do with it beyond providing a pool of funding. Show me the artist -- friend of Steiglitz or Pound or whomever -- who would not prefer to have a 5k to free up time to finish a book or a play or a sheaf of poems. Beyond that, the cultural renaissance in the Village was severely limited to a small group of people. The public money available over the past 30 years has not only led to the creation of innumerable works of art, but has established more or less stable cultural organizations in towns and cities all over the country. The presence of these arts groups has enriched the experiences of countless people. It is really romantic sentimentalism to think that artists are better off starving. M2