The Controversy Over Controversial Art
Parachini’s article gives the National Endowment for the Arts an image of chronic spinelessness.
Censorphobia is no excuse for abandoning common sense and good taste in making artistic judgments. Whoever could say with a straight face that Andres Serrano’s image of Christ in urine is art must be a direct descendant of the emperor who gave gold to the weaver to make his wonderful invisible clothes.
Some people must be laughing privately at how they are fooling the dilettantes who have drifted into positions of authority in the art establishment.
No amount of intimidation justifies any endowment organization’s letting itself be bamboozled into supporting vulgarity for its own sake.
EV MORRIS
Hemet
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