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| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: James F. Cooper |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,305 Words, 8,030 Characters |
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"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business. I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we too will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."
-John F. Kennedy, on the proposed establishment of a national endowment for the arts (1963).
A small exhibition consisting of less than two dozen artworks attracted unusual media attention this past spring. NBC-TV News staffers lugged video cams to the fifth-floor New York City gallery of Sherry French, where producer Jennifer Konecky interviewed participants of To Grant or Not to Grant. Earlier, ...
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...tional Academy of Design in 1852, Samuel F.B. Morse observed, "The aim of the artist is set by the nation." This is what John Kennedy envisioned as the artist's contribution to the national spirit. Let us restore excellence to the arts, then, not for art's sake but for the sake of a nation emerging from perhaps its most critical period since the Civil War and about to embark on a new century.
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