Slog - Comments on Hallelujah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah From the Washington Post: Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since March 2003, plans to announce today that in January he will leave the federal agency he is credited with helping revitalize. Yeah, he revitalized it by turning it into the most cowering, deferential source of government arts funding this side of Syria. Which was, arguably, his job. Once Bush got elected, everybody in the arts world knew—or should've known—that the NEA was in serious fucking trouble. An evangelical businessman (whose favorite philosopher is Jesus) needs to do some cutting to make good on his small-government... Copyright 2008 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:53:39 -0800 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:56:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Daniel Allen http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/13/uselections2008.usa

Great Gurdian story to ease your pain

]]> Daniel Allen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1140742 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1140742 Arts Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:06:34 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave if I ever ge ridiculously wealthy ill fund some motherfucking arts. particularly musical theatre.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1140750 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1140750 Arts Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:18:46 -0800 Comment by Wendy R. Amen, brother.

]]> Wendy R. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1141004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1141004 Arts Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:07:21 -0800 Comment by eliza Was he worse than Lynn Cheney?

]]> eliza http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1141101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1141101 Arts Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:21:49 -0800 Comment by BPJ I think the article is unfair to Gioia. He did an outstanding job given the political culture he had to work with. Due to clever misrepresentation by right-wing know-nothings, the NEA had been branded in the mind of most of the public as a far-left entity which gave tons of money to untalented America-haters. Grossly inaccurate, but that was the perception. Gioia has "rebranded" the NEA as more mainstream. I hope it can be more adventurous in an Obama administration with a large Democratic majority in Congress; nevertheless I suggest that funding for truly cutting-edge, politically tinged work will mainly have to come from foundations and individual donors. In my charitable giving, I make it a point to support theatres & art centers which present challenging work which is unlikely to attract sustained government or corporate funding - please consider doing likewise.

I look forward to seeing Gioia's poetry again.

]]> BPJ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1143003 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/hallelujiah#c1143003 Arts Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:56:45 -0800