RE: Cap's bad old days :)

Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:37:08 -0800 (PST) 

Sean, What do you cut first in school funding, art classes or business?


>From: "Sean Draine (Exchange)" <seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: "'bananafish@lists.nyu.edu'" <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
>Subject: RE: Cap's bad old days :)
>Date: 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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