Kickstarter Kicks the NEA's Butt in Arts Funding

One thing this article shows is that the hoopla the political right continues to make over national governmental arts funding, it is really a measly sum. It doesn’t mean to totally cut funding.

Kickstarter Kicks the NEA’s Butt in Arts Funding:

Kickstarter,’a
nifty website that bills itself as a ‘funding platform for creative
projects,’ plans to hand off $150 million in cash to artsy-fartsy
projects of all shapes and sizes in 2012, co-founder Yancey
Strickler
told TPM
‘last week. The money comes from individual donors
who voluntarily give to specific projects.

The 2012 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts is $146
million.

Jus’ sayin.

Reason.tv on
three reasons not to fund art with taxpayer dollars
:

Reason’s Greg Beato is So
Bored with the NEA
.”

Via tipster and trickster Andrew Mayne.

(Via Reason Magazine – Topics > Arts.)