Occasional Papers
Getting Real: the Arts in Post-NEA America
Opera and theater director, teacher, and activist, Peter Sellars muses on the possibilities of art and inspiration in a world without government funding. His approach to dialogue on art is truly dialectic. Things don’t get done in the art world by people telling others what they think; one truly accomplishes artistic work and change by entering and engaging a room full of interesting active people. Art does have the ability to change the world, and it enters into crisis when its teaching forgets subject matter and consists solely of formal considerations—Sellars offers us a vision of artistic engagement that can proceed with or without the NEA.
Authors
Robert Alter
Kwame A. Appiah
T. J. Clark
J.M. Coetzee
Arthur Danto
Mike Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis
Wendy Doniger
Gerald Early
Christina Gillis, ed.
Anthony Grafton
Seamus Heaney
Eva Hoffman
Michael Ignatieff
Stephen Katz
Bert Keizer
Ivan Klima
Maya Lin
Alan Liu
Margaret Lock
Kenzaburô Ôe
Robert Pinsky
Michael Pollan
Sebastião Salgado
Peter Sellars
Maurice Sendak
Kathleen Woodward