“It is difficult to say to anybody, you should… become acquainted with your animal, because people think it is a sort of lunatic asylum, they think the animal is jumping over the walls or raising hell all over town. Yet, the animal… is pious, it follows the path with great regularity… Only man is extravagant…”
Carl Jung (Visions Seminar I, p. 282)
I reported on the DC Advocates for the Arts blog yesterday that President Obama’s FY 12 proposed budget will trigger major changes in the DC cultural landscape. In addition to reductions to the NEA and NEH which will affect local grant-making, the proposed budget would eliminate the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program (as DC has known it) by turning guaranteed operating support funding from the US Commission on Fine Arts into semi-competitive grants administered by the District’s arts agency. Continue reading “Phoney Baloney Insiders”