Posted on 05/03/2025 11:56:56 PM PDT by ransomnote
The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.
The National Endowment for the Arts withdrew and canceled grant offers to numerous arts organizations around the country on Friday night, sending a round of email notifications out just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in his next budget.
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In Oregon, Portland Playhouse received an email from the endowment just 24 hours before opening a production of August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” an acclaimed work that is part of the playwright’s series of 10 dramas about African Americans through the course of the 20th century. The N.E.A. had recommended a $25,000 grant for the show, which would have paid about one-fifth of the production’s personnel costs.
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The emails were sent to arts administrators from an address at the endowment that did not accept replies. “The N.E.A. is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation’s rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the president,” the emails said. “Consequently, we are terminating awards that fall outside these new priorities.”
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The Mao Luther King Jr statue.......GOOD ONE! Yes A MLB sculpture done by a Chinese sculptor, just think about that...Certainly not done by a black artist. Wonder what MLK would think about that.
I have never understood any rationale for artists to receive taxpayers' funds--nor any other profession.
In a move criticized by Conservatives, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) gave a $10,000 grant in 2016 to Borderlands Theater in Tucson, Arizona, for a cactus theater. Attendees could commune with a saguaro cactus for an hour in the middle of the desert.
Think of how lonely that cactus could have been without an infusion of cash from Uncle Sugar. Here are some equally noteworthy projects, including $495,000 to create medieval smells in a museum, $845,000 to support film festivals that showcase movies with decapitated heads, public urination and sexual promiscuity, and just short of half a million to produce Shakespeare Without Words. No one's art education should lack that sort of exposure. Now shut up and pony up!
De-fund the dum basses.
Art that is subsidized by the government is compromised.
Hear, hear!
It’s been that way for thousands of years. Yup./s
You can say that again.
Devil’s advocate question: Were the Medici and the Church back then the government or private patrons at that time?
Same question with regard to Shakespeare, who had powerful patrons who were also in the government.
You might not get a Sistine Chapel.
Wasn’t the Sistine Chapel a private commission?
“Art” is a matter of opinion.
By the Pope, whose serfs’ tribute and the Church’s revenues for indulgences was his to do with as he would. So he decided to commission Michelangelo to paint a ceiling, using his money.
I was thinking about a little Muhammed figurine standing under a perpetual fountain of clear yellow liquid - it could be titled "Pi$$ be Upon Him." I might apply for a grant.
Not yellow liquid...rather, BBQ sauce 😁
I am not sure if Trump understands Keynsianism, but this is a blow to it. Big government had for decades the cover of so called economists like Keynes, Galbraith and other left wing economist ilk. You would see claims like “1.00 spent in the arts creates $1.21 in value”. Big government is built on this nonsense.
Let’s compromise on pigs’ blood. 👍🏻
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