Artaud’s Homage to Van Gough

In January 2014 I did a series of posts about a imaginary Art Festival being held in Bozeman Monatana. Artaud and VanGough were coming in on the high noon train to attend. They represented the foreign eliment lacking in this cowboy town. To read the article wherein the Bozeman Arts Thing, defends the National Endowment of the Arts, is why Trump fears artists more than the press. “As executive orders continue, Americans need to keep their focus on assessing their merits in terms of community. For example, the federal arts and history funding programs, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, are possibly going to be terminated.
Budgetary considerations can hardly be the reason as these organizations operate in the millions, not billions, something akin to one or two military aircraft. Yet they touch every state, providing funding and opportunities for opera companies (consider Bozeman’s own Intermountain Opera), for hundreds of Shakespeare productions through outreach to rural communities, for museums, theatre companies, and for grants to arts and history training programs for young people – cultural enrichment for communities in 50 states.”