A creative guy gets one lousy little conviction, and can't make an honest buck anymore.
Posted on 06/23/2024 5:59:58 PM PDT by dynachrome
Florida governor Ron DeSantis slashed more than $32m in art and culture grants from next year’s state budget, effectively eliminating most of the state’s financial resources available for the arts. The legislature had already approved the funds in the form of two grants: $26m for one that supports cultural and museum programming, and $6m for another for building projects.
The cuts are a small part of the nearly $1bn in line items that DeSantis vetoed before signing the budget last week, but art and cultural institutions across Florida say losing those grants will pose an immense challenge.
“It’s a huge disappointment and a quandary,” Michael Tomor, the executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art, told The Tampa Bay Times. “We are all unclear as to why this happened.”
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Exactly
Nobody goes to museums anymore. Or libraries, for the most part, except geezers like me.
“No justice, no peace” has ALWAYS been a thinly veiled threat of violence if “their demands” weren’t met.
“Justice” being a fungible term of legalistic art, has no clear objective parameters.
Just keep those EBT cards and midnight basketball perks coming or, “Burn, baby, burn,” as H. Rap Brown once put it so eloquently.
If art is any good it will support it’s self.
I’m hoping Sabatini is next governor. He’s good.
Here in CT the boys rest rooms in the high schools have tampon dispensers.
Legislators are like teenagers in a car filled with beer—dangerous to themselves and others.
I have been to more bad museums than good ones.
The two amazing surprises were the Natural History and the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque.
Biggest disappointment was the Perot “Science” Museum in Dallas.
All architecture and very little true science.
Plus really hard to get to with traffic.
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