RE: Cap's bad old days :)

Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:57:08 -0800 

If forced to make this choice, I'd cut whichever program drew the least
interest and support from the community it served. If the kids want to learn
about art, give them art I say! If they prefer balance sheets, well, I guess
we give them balance sheets.

BTW, if anyone's interested in viewing a large capitalist-supported art
collection, you can do so at
http://www.microsoft.com/magazine/guides/gallery/. 

-Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Florie Sommers [mailto:writeflorie@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:37 AM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: RE: Cap's bad old days :)


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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