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Innocent," claiming it was not art, citing "a conservative neighborhood" and new rules about outdoor works. Congressional aides are going through the NEA's files. Applications and recommended grants are being red-flagged before they go on to the National Council on the Arts for approval. New York State is reported to be imposing similar language on its Council for the Arts that would ban art with "Communist references," and the Socialist Workers Party's "huge and glorious ^ [[ ?papa finder of??]] mural" --executed by 50 artists from 20 countries-- has also come under attack. Blacklists are to be expected.

^[[The]] NEA peer panels-- whose integrity is at the core of the matter -- find themselves becoming mere puppets of the new wiggly line. By the end of November, San Diego progressive artist Liz Sisco was the only panelist to pull out in protest of the Artists Space situation, and she was appalled to discover that some of her fellow panelists did not even know about it. A boycott of all NEA panels would be the best, if unlikely, response, along with a moratorium on all decision-making [[strikethrough]] as long as guidelines remain [[/strikethrough]] ^[[until]] vague and arbitrarily punitive ^[[guidelines]] [[strikethrough]] and until the [[/strikethrough]] language ^[[,]] and procedures, are clarified. What, for instance, will happen when grants are canceled six months after they were given? Will the peer panel [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] ^[[they]] selected it be reconvened or will the decision be left to non-artists? The re-authorization committee, headed