What is the government's role in artistic and cultural content?

[northernsoul]

As a philosophical matter, what role do you feel government should play in dealing with artistic and cultural content?

[bryant69]

1. I don't know if it can have a fixed role

Certainly some great works of art have been created under the auspices of a government of some kind or another. In architecture it's almost unavoidable. On the other hand it's hard to see how government involvement in Poetry produces any benefit at all.

Bryant
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[HereSince1628]

2. Proper use of draperies and grape leaves on statutory nekkidness

The trouble is the R's have terrible sense of color and fabrics.

[northernsoul]

3. Don't forget the covering of Picasso's "Guernica"

when Powell dropped that Cleveland Steamer at the U.N.