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xianne

- 21 Aug 06
- 2:46 pm
It's a shame the LA office is such a dramatic example of what can go wrong, but lets be honest, you could fill a library with the sad tales of good canvas offices gone bad. I have about 16 years worth of stories -watching comfortably from the outside looking in. Canvasing is not for me, but it has been a lifetime of work for several friends, and my ex-husband. It has always struck me that what canvasing organisations need is - um, well... common sense. Here's my advice: *Hire a payroll company instead of spending a lot of time trying to …

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- 19 May 06
- 3:29 pm
I guess I'm glad to know that I am not alone, but quite sad to know how pervasive the censorship is. I've been rejected repeatedly for residencies that seem tailor made for me, in my own neighborhood, in a "liberal" college town with a booming emerging artist scene. Yet I know the work is good because I show in Europe. I have a flag burning piece that I am very affraid to produce, yet more and more I feel like it is time. Why burn the American flag? Because we can! When we decide not to exercise our rights, they will …

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- 20 May 06
- 9:38 am
Maybe it's not right or good to call people nasty epitaphs, but I believe in the right to make that decision on my own. Would you like to have the government tell you you aren't allowed to speak certain words upon threat of inprisonment or bodily harm? Where is the line to be drawn? When institutions and governments start limiting our access to ideas and images, we loose our ability to decide for ourselves. I don't think its right to eliminate things just because I don't like them. I object to Coors Beer comercials, but I can't see legislating them off …

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- 24 May 06
- 8:37 am
Artists who were at one point in their career considered "Offensive": Picasso Dali Gaugin Monet Pollock Warhol DeKooning shall I go on?

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- 25 May 06
- 10:54 am
I don't know about when they were alive, but now,all the artists on that list get LOTS of US taxpayer subsidies - because the museums that house thier work are all subsidised. And my point is that you may consider Gomez-Pena's work to be offensive, but you might be missing out on a national treasure. The test of time, and your beloved "free-market" will answer that question down the road. But as for voting with our dollars, if we aren't presented with all the potential candidates, how can we vote for them? Funding is usually the only thing that stands between …

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- 27 May 06
- 7:03 pm
"I have no say about paying taxes" I think this is exactly the point. i don't like my tax dollars going to fund black ops and eavsdropping without a warrant, so I can vote for people who agree with me, but I'm in a bad spot if I decide not to pay my taxes. Funding all the arts, with tax dollars, guarantees a bit of equal footing for all opinions, and if I don't like how the money is being disbursed I can VOTE and change things. But when fear and blackballing are used to subvert democracy, then my vote becomes …

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