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http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_50/reunionofnea.html NEA Four From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The "NEA Four", Karen Finley, Tim Miller, John Fleck, and Holly Hughes, were performance artists whose proposed grants from the United States government's National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were vetoed by John Frohnmayer in June 1990. Grants were overtly vetoed on the basis of subject matter after the artists had successfully passed through a peer review process. The artists won their case in court in 1993 and were awarded amounts equal to the grant money in question, though the case would make its way to the United States Supreme Court in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley.[1] In response, the NEA, under pressure from Congress, stopped funding individual artists. And in an even more reactionary response, the NEA during the W(ORST) Empire funded uncontroversial productions of Shakespeare, guaranteed not to change anyone's life. Not unlike classical music used as muzak. Barry Alpert On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:53:41 -0600, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Or is it that the money might be better spent elsewhere? Vegetable orchestras?