The end of the N.E.A. (controversy over the National Endowment of the Arts support for eroticism and pornography in art) From: National Review | Date: May 13, 1991| Author: Neusner, Jacob | COPYRIGHT 1991 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

TWO YEARS AGO, in April 1989, the destruction of the National Endowment for the Arts began. It all started with a letter frim the American Family Foundation of Tupelo, Mississippi, complaining to the members of the National Council on the Arts about a grant made by a beneficiary of a state arts agency, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, in support of a gross offense to the Christian religion. It seems an artist named Serrano had filled a jar with urine, placed in it a ...