National Endowment for the Arts Pushing Obama's Agenda
Wednesday, 04 Aug 2010 10:54 AM
By: Herbert London

From the origin of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) during the Johnson administration to the election of President Obama, the arts community was united in its opposition to censorship. The argument that prevailed is that the NEA should not use funding to restrict artistic expression or deny support for art that might offend bourgeois sensibility.

When a significant segment of the public was outraged to learn that the NEA provided funding for Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ,â€