UPDATE: What the NEA Says Vs. Documented Facts

by Patrick Courrielche
Big Hollywood
Sep. 02, 2009

The S and R in this piece of "art" is so blatantly the Nazi SS symbol, there is nothing to get around it, it was the first thing which came to my mind the second I saw it, and when you scroll down and read the comments the 2nd poster mentions the same thing. ChrisWhat does it mean when a government official evades the truth?

On August 25th, I published an article discussing a conference call hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve that invited a group of art community luminaries “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda - health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.”

In the article I argued that it was not the role of the National Endowment for the Arts to use the arts to address specific issues, especially those of “health care” and “energy and environment” that are being vehemently debated nationally. I also clearly indicated that I was invited by the NEA and questioned their involvement in a meeting of this nature.

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