RE: Cap's bad old days :)
Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:27:16 -0800
And again, we have art pitted against capitalism, as if these were mutually
exclusive. Just to balance the discussion, let me point out that certain
corporations spend large sums of money on the arts by purchasing thousands
of paintings and sculptures and by matching employee donations.
I agree that the government should fund art, but it's not clear to me why we
should expect some grant committee to do a better job of rewarding good art
than we, the actual consumers of art, could do.
The suggestion that art should have a higher funding priority than corporate
bailouts is rather amusing. "Sorry, kids, but it's porridge again for dinner
until mommy and daddy find another job. But the good news is, tonight we're
going to see the Academy for Mime and Interpretive Dance deconstruct the
semantic and emotional space surrounding economic disenfranchisement in the
context of a Marxist interpretation of history."
And yes, who you know is just as important as what you know. We're a
dreadfully social species.
-Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Florie Sommers [mailto:writeflorie@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 7:58 AM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: Cap's bad old days :)
Matt-
I agree that there should be equal funding (if not more) for the arts
and corp. bail-outs. They should also be seen as equally important to
the county.
Florie
>From: Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Cap's bad old days :)
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:05:44 -0600
>
>Camille sides with Ms. Virginia Woolf. Artists need a "room of their
own" in
>which to practice and perfect their genius.
>Jim takes the side of a professor I once had who pointed out that
Chaucer
>never had this "room of his own", nor did Hemingway.
>
>I for one feel that if the government is going to spend millions
bailing out
>corporations and farmers it shouldn't begrudge the huddled masses a
federally
>funded arts community...Matt Stevenson
>
>On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:18:28 +1100 verona_beach@geocities.com (Camille
>Scaysbrook) wrote:
>
>>
>>Jim wrote:
>>> Talent -- no, genius -- finds a way in any system, and more often
than
>>> not it's a pretty difficult way.
>>
>>Yeah ... so what happens to the 90% who fall along the way? Even
geniuses
>>get sick and tired and need to pay the rent. It's a very
over-romanticised
>>view of genius for you to take - more and more I realise it's not what
you
>>know but who; there's so much tosh that gets out there, gets
published, and
>>somehow finds its way into millions of hands that sometimes I think
that
>>true talent - that is, originality, danger and innovation - is the
direct
>>opposite of an advantage.
>>
>>Camille
>>verona_beach@geocities.com
>>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
>
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