Continuing Controversy Over Federal Funds for Artists
Instead of trying to define “obscenity” for the NEA controversy, why don’t we try to define what is “art.” Perhaps we could borrow George Bernard Shaw’s definition of what is “theater”: “A place for the exaltation of the human spirit and a haven from gloom and despair.”
BEVERLY KRAMER
Los Angeles
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