I feel that in the form of arts the public should have no responsibility to support them. I think that there should be no grants given to an artist because they have chosen this profession. I think though that loans should be made available for them to encourage them to create pieces but just like college students they should be paid back. If an artist is making a painting or another type of artwork I …showed first 75 words of 282 total…

…showed last 75 words of 282 total…D.C. canceled a traveling retrospective of his work in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid a debate in Congress over public funding by the National Endowment for the Arts of works deemed "objectionable by fundamentalist religious groups and political conservatives. In 1990 a Cincinnati jury found that city's Contemporary Arts Center and its director not guilty of obscenity for exhibiting Mapplethorpe photographs. His works are included in such volumes as Lady. (www.encycopedia.com, Robert Mapplethorpe)