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Two weeks ago, TIME devoted nine pages to a Robert Hughes essay on Congress, America's priorities and the arts. This is an important topic worthy of serious debate. Yet, instead of debating the message, Hughes decided to attack the messengers. It is unfortunate Hughes chose to resort to name...
TIME's readers deserve better. It is important to present the whole picture, not the distorted outline Hughes sketches. The American people need an actual debate to understand where federal funding of the arts fits in with larger issues confronting our nation. Balancing the budget, restoring a civil society and...
Hughes' essay rests on the misguided liberal premise that the Federal Government equals America. The cover declares, WHY AMERICA SHOULDN'T KILL CULTURAL FUNDING." Inside, the story is titled, "Pulling the Fuse on Culture." It is curious that such an apocalyptic tone is generated in defense of agencies that did...
Hughes seems to think the arts and humanities should be exempt from the same vigorous scrutiny that virtually every other part of the federal budget is undergoing. When we have a national debt of nearly $5 trillion, it is the height of arrogance to believe that anyone's pet programs...
Even while taxpayer money may subsidize some worthwhile artistic projects, too often the seed money that Hughes endorses actually cultivates bad seeds. This is vividly illustrated in a new book by Alice G. Marquis of the University of California at San Diego, Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall...