Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 19:29:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-ncal.verio.com>
Subject: Re: Sceptical?



See?! Already! And just imagine the quality and degree of support once the
NEA finally bites-the-dust (for good) ;-)


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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Reg Lilly wrote:

> It may be too much to hope for, but in a wasteland of non-support, a glimmer of hope?  From today's NYTimes:
> 
> 
> "Private Donors Unite to Support Art Spurned by the Government"
> 
> By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI
> 
> "Nearly two dozen foundations and philanthropists, reacting to cuts in federal arts spending, have joined forces to
> support artists who challenge convention. The new group will attempt to make up for some of the individual grants the
> federal government ended in 1994 after years
> of controversy over works dealing with nudity, sexuality and other provocative themes. 
> 
> The new nonprofit organization, called Creative Capital Foundation, will be announced officially next week. But it has
> already made it clear that it will not shy away from the kind of innovative art that incited protests by religious and
> political conservatives. 
> 
> "This is a boisterous, diverse country, and we have always had art that upsets people," said Archibald L. Gillies,
> president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and one of the new group's organizers. "Controversy," he
> added, "won't bother us at all." 
> 
> [most of the article snipped]
> 
> 
> 
> PS .. they sure didn't have any poets in on the name!
> 
> Reg





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