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09/21/09
This is such a non-issue.
09/21/09
The NEA will probably remain the same toothless, inoffensive organization it has been for years -- primarily funding folk art and dull "worthy" arts education-y stuff. The biggest likely change will be the return of throwing small sums at individual artists who might, maybe, make something controversial once in a while, just so everyone in the office can feel a little relevant and brave again.
09/21/09
09/21/09
Of course, if you think giving the guidelines or requests at all is coercion or would only interest artists who are pro-Obama (or Bush or whomever past president), then the debate is over.
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09/21/09
It's not explicitly stated that either the NEA or the Whitehouse asked for this to happen. But for this NOT to have been made explicitly a bipartisan grouping is a pretty huge oversight for either organization to make.
09/21/09
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09/21/09
Even those boring, dangly airborne mobile sculptures in primary colors which look like they belong in an office lobby or hanging over the bananas at Whole Foods are controversial, as in "Will it decapitate me when it falls, or merely maim me?"
Public art should be accessible to the public. That probably means no vajayjays. But nipples are another matter altogether.
08/26/09
"Herding cats" doesn't begin to cover it. And no one who actually describes himself as a "consultant" has any place in the arts -- we have enough unemployed busybodies, thanks.
I call BS until Rocco Landesman sends out a signed press release.
08/26/09
This is about the National Endowment for the Arts. A lot of people might confuse the acronym with another often hated by the right organization, the National Education Association.
08/26/09
I want my socialist realist murals, damn it!
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01/12/09
In all fairness, I don't think he's doing the legwork on the research. Also, he used to be in marketing at General Mills once upon a time.
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01/12/09
His marketing oeuvre included, if I am not mistaken, the Kool-Aid Man.
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01/12/09
This is from his website??
The Country Wife
She makes her way through the dark trees
Down to the lake to be alone.
Following their voices on the breeze,
She makes her way. Through the dark trees
The distant stars are all she sees.
They cannot light the way she's gone.
She makes her way through the dark trees
Down to the lake to be alone.
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water.
She cannot see the winds that break
The night reflected on the lake
But knows they motion for her sake.
These are the choices they have brought her:
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water.
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