melon said:Well, aren't we looking to be controversial?
financeguy said:Ok, my thoughts on it are:
(1) Taxpayers' money should not be used to finance controversial artworks.
(2) However, first amendment rights protect freedom of expression, and rightly so.
Angela Harlem said:
I'm writing in response to having just read the other 2 threads in which this came up, but I also want to add, those who think art should not be tax funded should take their sport and fuck off back to 'street sport' with friends and neighbours. I'm sick of my tax dollars funding such fruitless efforts which see my entire country stop so Cathy bloody Freeman can run 100 metres in record time. Now there's a pointless assigning of public funds.
80sU2isBest said:Here's my stance. I don't expect to have to pay for art that I find offensive, and I really don't expect athiests to have to pay for Christian art.
While should I have to pay a grant so that someone can paint a masterpiece, or so that someone can write a play? I compose music, but I would never expect any of you to subsidize it.
80sU2isBest said:
What in the world are you talking about, Angela?
80sU2isBest said:I think that art education, as in schools, should be funded. But personal art endeavors? Nope.
Pic removed. - neutralDreadsox said:Well....here you go.
80sU2isBest said:I really can't think of any personal endeavor that should be funded by taxes.
80sU2isBest said:Here's my stance. I don't expect to have to pay for art that I find offensive, and I really don't expect athiests to have to pay for Christian art.
Yes, I do.Angela Harlem said:So you object equally to tax payer funded sport? Just wanting to clarify.
BonoVoxSupastar said:The problem is not the art but the interpretation. The beauty of art is that it can be interpreted in an infinite amount of ways.
Piss Christ can be interpreted as a protest of the church.
As a rejection of Christ.
As an analogy that Christ took on the world's sin, with the urine representing sin.
Etc.
Originally posted by Angela Harlem
On Piss-Christ, could it be interpreted as Christianity frequently getting pissed on? A protest, if you like, against the ever increasing railing agasint the church?
deep said:
celibacy?
BonoVoxSupastar said:When art is destroyed, society is destroyed. You may not believe it now, but when it happens you'll understand.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
What about laws you find offensive? What about education you find offensive? What about Presidents you find offensive?
BonoVoxSupastar said:When art is destroyed, society is destroyed. You may not believe it now, but when it happens you'll understand.