Stephen Harding wrote:

Cub Driver wrote:

Since when does your freedom of expression depend on
government tax dollars?



It's a fairly honored attitude in the arts. Seems to me it's ten years
or more since I read of a woman artist who specialized in smearing her
nude body with chocolate sauce (body art) who was turned down for a
government grant, and who responded by pointing out that her freedom
of speech had been infringed.

I'm sure that the National Endowmen for the Arts hastened to send her
a check.


I think I remember that.

Must have been the Reagan fascists running the NEA at
the time.

Or maybe it's just a cruel world with no decent sense
of art appreciation.


SMH


Or maybe it was the series of "art" that came out about then featuring
a) a woman smearing her nude body with her own feces; b) a crucifix
upside down in a bottle of urine; and other such fine works of "art."
Big uproar from the middle of the country about those things and from of
us that live on the Middle Coast too.

Note: Newsgroups I don't read are cut out of the addressee list.

George