I favor defunding of the National Endowment for the Arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not because I’m against art. Far from it. This blog. and my talk show, perhaps the Twin Cities’ finest two pieces of political performance art, should be proof of my commitment to art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
t the lesson is straight out of Econ 101; if you give people money to do something – in this case, to make art that may or may no be garbage, but matches some funder’s agenda or another, people will line up to take the money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I’m not sure that this “installation” last week was funded by the NEA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a press release from the activist group Indecline, over two-dozen \u201cmen and women of color and members of the LGBT community\u201d placed leashes and custom made dog collars on white men in red M.A.G.A. hats and walked them on all fours up and down Hollywood Boulevard on Sunday.
The group says that their \u201cperformance\u201d was based on Cardi B\u2019s recent Twitter battle with Tomi Lahren, in which the crass rapper told the right-wing pundit,\u00a0 \u201cLeave me alone, or I\u2019ll dog walk you.\u201d<\/p>VIA GATEWAY PUNDIT<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n(Note – vile misogyny is apparently OK if it’s a “conservative” you’re misogynizing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But on another level, even if there wasn’t a single penny of NEA money behind it (and I can’t imagine there wasn’t, at some level or another), the whole farce is a symptom of the sort of entitled, smug, cliched “art” that arises from “artists” who have little to fear financially, and nothing, really, to fear socially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To say nothing of critically. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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