This is the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
It is such a beautiful place full of so many treasures. Looks like the trash is pilling up though.
Too bad, I had planned a holiday visit, their gift shop is/was wonderful
Perhaps you misunderstood me.
The National Endowment for Arts is a slush fund, if you will, for the likes of pornographers such as Mapplethorpe to create their crap, whereas the National Portrait Gallery is the venue for them to show it. And it is a most beautiful place. A shame that the likes of Mapplethorpe and Leibowitz are allowed to sully it with their pornographic crap disguised as "art".
Both the NEA and the NPG are taxpayer funded.
While I think the pursuit and encouragement of the arts is a worthwhile thing, I think that public perception of what is or is not art should come into play.
On the other hand, one man's pornography is another mans art...however in this case, the decision as to what is what has been effectively taken away from the public.
The right of the public majority to decide how and on what their money should be spent has been steadily eroded by the immoral democratic party, anyway.
I can't help but think that the likes of Mapplethorpe and Leibowitz are secretly laughing at all of us, behind our backs.