should it?
echoing the strains of the late leni riefenstahl’s defense of triumph of the will and olympia, isaac mizrahi (whose contribution to fashion design is far more insignifcant than riefenstahl’s contribution to film) was recently quoted as saying,
“If a designer or any artist takes funding from tobacco companies, I admire them. Shouldn’t art be more important than policy?” wsj, 15 sept 03, b1
September 15th, 2003 at 5:00 pm
i’m not sure why he would admire those artists. personally, i wouldn’t condemn those artists, because they need the money. if the government or other institutions aren’t going to provide the funding, then the artists might as well take it from an evil corporation.