From a month ago:<\/p>\n
\u201cMy criteria, President Trump\u2019s criteria, is different,\u201d [Kennedy Center President Richard] Grenell said. \u201cWe cannot have arts institutions that lose money because you have programming that is woke or not popular. We need popular programming to sustain arts institutions.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nonsense. Opera, theater, ballet, all of these art forms and more, when a new specimen happens on the scene, must work to find the proper form to effectively express them. This is not a five minute exercise, but it may be a five production<\/em> exercise, or even more, because this is difficult and laborious work; to claim otherwise is to demonstrate profound ignorance.<\/p>\n
To impose a limitation from another sector of society<\/a> is to pervert the expression of the art, and that’s just … dumb. Corporate sponsorships are an implicit recognition that we have a society that principally functions in the private sector, that art does not fit that sector’s practices very well, and the sponsorships are attempts to bandage over the unfortunate problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a month ago: \u201cMy criteria, President Trump\u2019s criteria, is different,\u201d [Kennedy Center President Richard] Grenell said. \u201cWe cannot have arts institutions that lose money because you have programming that is woke or not popular. We need popular programming to sustain arts institutions.\u201d [WaPo] Nonsense. Opera, theater, ballet, all of \u2026 Continue reading