Gee, Jill looks nothing like I thought she’d look like (snarky sarcasm)
Posted on 01/09/2019 11:21:43 PM PST by 11th_VA
Jill Rorem, like many Americans, had made some special plans for the holidays. The Chicago native, whose legal work often brings her to Washington, D.C., was finally going to get to see the nation's capital with her arts-obsessed kids.
"I have very nerdy daughters, and they're super cool. Like, my oldest kid was Andy Warhol for Halloween," Rorem says. So they'd planned a grand tour of the Smithsonian museums, from the National Gallery of Art to the National Portrait Gallery, maybe even the zoo if she could convince her husband. "They would have soaked it up. I always love watching things from my kids' eyes."
Then, the federal government partially shut down.
Instead of heading to D.C., where all their dream destinations were shuttered without funding, her family lost about a thousand dollars rescheduling the trip.
Now, Rorem readily concedes that her family's frustrations are far from the worst of the shutdown's fallout — but she's also far from alone. The showdown in Washington has reverberated across a vast expanse of the U.S. arts community and beyond the country's borders. It has been felt not just by the museums and their patrons, but also by Brooklyn students, Los Angeles filmmakers, domestic nonprofits and foreign artists — even among the volcanoes of Hawaii.
"It's a fragile industry. It's not a rich, money-making thing," Robert Lynch, head of Americans for the Arts, says of the landscape of arts workers and organizations.
... according to Lynch, and when it comes to funding, "many of them end the year just on the edge."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Remember when Clinton shut down the government? Remember who the media blamed?
Exactly - The Republicans always get blamed ... Trump is doing great ...
“A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” - Robert A. Heinlein
When charity isn’t charity.
Gee, Jill looks nothing like I thought she’d look like (snarky sarcasm)
Find a patron of the arts. There are quite a few billionaires who could easily fund this.
Go to Google Images, type in a name of a work of art and voila!
NPR didn’t seem so upset when Obama deliberately blocked the scenic route by Mount Rushmore and barry-caded the National Mall’s outdoor monuments.
So she’s into copycat art?
Soros.
Right! WGAF.
Make up your mind, stupit hippie.
"Very Nerdy" is the exact opposite of "super cool".
#GayCommunityHardestHit
#ViveLeShutdown
Not making a profit jeopardizes your business’s hardiness.
That’s the first thing I always ask... How will something hurt the artists and non-profits?
NOT!
Since when nonprofits got to cut into my non profit money contribution preferences? We have church establishment and violation of the 1st amendment in America. Amazing no supreme nor anyone points it out
She should call all her dimocrat representatives and tell them to vote for funding the wall so the shut down can end.
My crocodile is fresh out of tears ...
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