National endowment for administrators; the NEA's real problem isn't crucifixes in urine - it's bureaucrats in Dubuque. (National Endowment for the Arts)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: June 1, 1991| Author: Mundy, Liza | Copyright information

The Arts Endowment has never called a great artist into being," declares National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) chairman John Frohnmayer in the NEA's glossy 1989 annual report. It seems an odd and ambiguous declaration for the chairman of the nation's leading arts agency to make-one that clearly resonated with the wrong faction during the NEA debate of 89 and '90. Thousands of cranky constituents wrote Congress protesting that their tax dollars had gone to support artists they had ...

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