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The problem with this is that 95% of the Arts sucks. Most of us don’t want to be supporting artists that suck, nor allowing government committees to determine what is and is not worthy of support. My NYSCA grant rejection and its attendant comments have taught me never to trust government arts agencies. I’ll gladly accept funds from them, but I’m acutely aware that they aren’t reliably competent to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Sounds like a disgruntled "artist" whose work wasn't worth paying for, at least not to the New York State Council on the Arts. It's a real shame for him to twist the entire concept of true art into something corporate. Sounds like his art has either not matured, is not original enough, or just not ready to be appreciated by the Council, and boy is he angry about that.
I guess if I were anticipating a committee to like my work so much that they would give me a grant to continue making it, and they didn't, I'd be angry to. It's a good thing everybody who buys a lottery ticket doesn't have his attitude, the lottery would be broke. Isn't that basically what he did, made the art(bought the ticket), entered the ticket(tried to win a grant), in a lottery(NYSCA), he lost, this time anyway.
However, if he is truly the artist he says artists' should be then he should not have been expecting money from strangers anyway, especially without first knowing what they wanted before attempting to receive said payment, not just offer up something he artistically created and expect them to like it and commission him for it, then gets so pissed when they say, oh, no thanks.
It just sounds like his day job isn't paying the bills. Based on his rant he sounds awful hungry to me, kinda like a starving artist. I have a squeegee he can borrow.