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Originally posted by Teutonics
What is art to some is not always art to others:
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I think this is the big point right there. Public funding of specific art can also be a slippery slope, because regardless of what the art is, there is going to be some frickin moron somewhere who will be offended and sue.
There will be cries of favoritism from artists who feel that their "art" should get public funding.
Gloria Steinman will be pissed off that Women artists aren't getting enough funding
There will be art funded that most people probably don't care to see (Robert Mapplethorpe with a bull whip in his rectum immediately comes to mind).
Al Sharpton will be pissed off that black artists aren't getting enough funding
Jim Baker will will be pissed off that Christian artists aren't getting enough funding
Rosie Odonnell will be pissed off that fat lesbian artists aren't getting enough funding
Louis Farrakhan will be pissed off that Jewish artists are getting too much funding
Realisticly, the state can't fund all of it, so it shouldn't fund any of it.
Tom