http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2003/Best_of_ARC/best1.asp?msg=116&forumID=18
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Q: How can you call for removal of government support for the arts? Wouldn’t it help if we were able to divert more government money to better kinds of art?
What we need is not more socialism for the museums and symphonies or government regulation of record companies and schools. What we need instead is to replace the mis-education system that removes the audiences from the symphonies, museums, art schools, and galleries. What we need to do is shrink the vast resources at their disposal and keep on plugging away trying to educate people about the good stuff. We don’t need socialism to support us. We just need the support for modernism that is extracted from the public by force to be eliminated. Suffice it to say that in cases where some genuinely desirable task is completed by the expenditure of government money, you always see manipulation of the process by those seeking special favors from the government. Generally the question in these genuinely desirable areas is not over whether the project will happen at all, but whether the government (with its typical lack of accountability, inefficiency, corruption, and power mongering) will do it or whether relatively more efficient and accountable private interests will do it
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I never had much use for art. At least how art was taught. I had a revelation, it Las Vegas (of ALL places). I dragged Frau to Wynn’s art exhibit. Paid a stiff entry price. (I thin 20$ a head). Got a forerunner of an ipod and an a walk through some painting by the Old Masters. I saw some paintings that knock my socks off.
I’m still no art fan. But, you have to admit these old birds could grab you by te ear lobe and make you listen.
It was the eyes that seemed like they were looking at you.
Sigh, less gooferment; more old masters?
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And then there’s the government spending our money so that our local County prisoners have some art to appreciate: spending $71,000 on a mural for the inside of the prison. And we can’t even get in to see it, unless we commit some crime of couse! What is wrong with us?
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