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more about #nationalendowmentforthearts more comments → skt.smth: Blah blah blah. The NEA budget is something like .0001% of the national budget. We give far less money (not just proportionally, but on a dollar basis... more » City_Dater: There is no story here. A conference call to "encourage artists to make art about Public Service" is not a promise of funding for said art, or any ot... more » Lance Uppercut: No, the issue was that they were telling artists to promote pro-obama/Democrat issues through their federally subsidized art. Which technically is a n... more » Baroness: SO bloody 1990, Pareene. Makes sense that we'll have to go through all this shit again, cyclically. Breitbart and his awful "Big Hollywood" site ge... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: This doesn't seem hugely interesting. I don't think you can do art on a contentious issue without it being partisan, somehow. And is there a compara... more » BettyCrocker: All art invites discussion, whether it's "Girl With A Pearl Earring" or "Girl With A Pearl Necklace: Ashley, Honey Is That You?". Even those boring, ... more » City_Dater: Oh, please. Put 15 artists from multiple disciplines in a room and ask them to "come up with a message to effect social change"...then step back and ... more » Jim Topoleski: I think we need to clarify WHICH NEA we are talking about here. This is about the National Endowment for the Arts. A lot of people might confuse the ... more » i'm a bottle: I agree with Courrielche. Obama ought to establish a separate department to oversee overtly politicized art, be it only to prevent the Right from usin... more » Sproing: With video becoming easier to deliver online, I keep wondering how long text will continue to be the dominant web communication method. Pretty soon we... more » Iceland Spar: Yea, but with Live Journal gone and nowhere for people to read the dirty Potter stories, that 50% number seems likely to drop significantly in 2009. more » BadUncle: Getting market data from a poet is like hiring a weaver to fix your disposal. more » Lymed: This past year's sample was a bit off, what with all the fiction coming out in the campaign. more » PromQueen: Also, he writes terrible, terrible poetry. more » -
#art
NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
BIG HOLLYWOOD investigative reporter Patrick Courrielche asks: "Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?" Well, yes. More » -
#conspiracytheories
NEA Assembling Artists for Propaganda Machine?!
Obama-related conspiracy theories stretch far and wide. And now they're weaving their way toward the National Endowment for the Arts. More » -
#literacy
Internet Not Responsible for Rise in Reading, Says Luddite
Reading is up! But don't dream of crediting the Internet for that phenomenon. Dana Gioia, the Bush-appointed chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, would sooner give himself a papercut. More »
