John and Newt in the cloakroom, muttering about distribution formulas. Somehow I just can't see it. There are significant problems with the NEA, and always have been, but, as C. Carr pointed out in an article in the Village Voice last week, one of the major impacts of the NEA has been in its support for a non-profit arts infrastructure. Ironically, what doesn't sell today is almost guaranteed to sell tomorrow. Through the highly permeable membranes of today's sophisticated telecommunications technology, everything is influenced by everything else.
Culture is a network, a net that works.
See you next week.