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appropriation is expected now and confirmation hearings on Jane Alexander’s nomination to be new NEA chair is also imminent. If you have read Leaving Town you will have background information enhancing the story’s interest and helping you to fit it inot the context from which it stems.
Mr. Frohnmayer’s discussions of his experiences with public funding of the arts lead the reader to a consideration of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, of the place of art in one’s own life and the life of our society. His book raises the issue that Congress is being asked today to consider: whether or not, and how, the government should be involved in supporting the arts.
Two sides of this question are still, “What is art?” and “What good is art-who needs it?” Our institutions don’t encourage us to discuss these questions, and most of all, they don’t encourage us to be nonjudgemntal about them. We haven’t come to a consensus on the matter of society’s relationship to art, in spite of the twenty
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