Remember the nearly 1 trillion dollars that was recently improved to "stimulate" the economy? Well, $80 million was given to the National Endowment for the Arts to support all those starving artists out there. Here is where some of your hard-earned money that was taxed went to:
$50,000 to the Frameline Filmhouse, a gay and lesbian theater that shows a movie called "Thundercrack", "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
$25,000 to a dance theater in San Francisco called CounterPULSE that currently has a "long-running pansexual performance series" that invites guests to "join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun."
$25,000 to the "Symmetry Project", a dance that depicts "the sharing of a central axis, [as] spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and centrality in embodied experience" according to the choreographer. Basically two naked people writhing together on the floor.
$50,000 to the Academy of American Poets.
$50,000 to the American Museum of Ceramic Art.
$50,000 to the California Lawyers for the Arts.
$50,000 to the Center for Puppetry Arts.
You can read the full list of art grants here and an article about the grants here.
I guess it's good that the taxpayer money is stimulating something!
1 comment:
That's enraging. I resent that my tax dollars are being used to fund this - and that we have no say in the matter. Who in the world is in charge of allocating these funds?
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