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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.
In 1993 the NEA settled with the four artists out of court and gave them the grants they had been denied. Still, they decided to litigate against the NEA's congressionally approved "decency clause," but on June 25, 1998, The Supreme Court upheld the decency clause while declaring the language "advisory" and meaningless. [14]
Tim Miller (born September 22, 1958, in Pasadena, California) is an American performance artist and writer, whose pieces frequently involve gay identity, marriage equality and immigration issues. He was one of the NEA Four, four performance artists whose National Endowment for the Arts grants were vetoed in 1990 by NEA chair John Frohnmayer. [1]
Controversy regarding the nature of his work was part of a series of battles regarding work by gay artists—such as a lawsuit filed by the NEA Four (Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller and John Fleck), and legal battles around the exhibition of work of Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Andres Serrano and Joel-Peter Witkin.
The Artists of Dionysus or Dionysiac Artists (Ancient Greek: οἱ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον τεχνιταί, romanized: hoi peri ton Dionuson technitai) were an association of actors and other performers who coordinated the organisation of Greek theatrical and musical performances in the Hellenistic Period and under the Roman Empire.
John Fleck (born May 7, 1951) is an American actor and performance artist. [2] He has performed in numerous TV shows, including Babylon 5, Carnivàle, Murder One, and the Star Trek franchise. [3] He also appeared in Howard The Duck, Waterworld and the music video for the ZZ Top song "Legs".
The society was founded by artists who had previously been members of the ‘World of Art’ and the ‘Blue Rose’. The association included painters and graphic artists, sculptors and architects, as a rule, belonging to the older generation, so all members of the association were characterised by high professional skill, precisely worked out image structure and expressiveness, the ability ...
The ancient Theran artists made full use of their colors: yellow was used for the golden fur of lions or the skin of youths, and as a stand-in for light green for painted plants such as myrtle. Blue was used as a dark gray to indicate birds, animal pelts, fish scales, and the shaven heads of young figures.