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PEOPLE, Page 89Rock to the Rescue
By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
That wasn't charity the hot rockers of AEROSMITH gave to
an art gallery last week -- that was $10,000 worth of
rebellion. The band made the donation to M.I.T.'s List Visual
Arts Center to replace a grant from the National Endowment for
the Arts that had been killed by the NEA'S acting chairwoman,
Anne-Imelda Radice. The agency head contends that the center's
"Corporal Politics" exhibit lacks "artistic merit." But critics
of the decision think it was actually a reaction to the
exhibit's renderings of human genitalia, including Rona
Pondick's Milk, a decidedly unsalacious suggestion of female
breasts fashioned from wax, paper towels and baby-bottle
nipples. Why would a rock group come to the defense of the fine
arts? Says Aero smith's Steve Tyler: "If somebody had closed the
doors to the barns, the bars and the frat houses that we played
in during the '70s, we would never have had a chance to get our
music to people's ears. That's happening to the arts community."
Aero smith's counterattack closely followed a decision by
composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim to reject an award from the
NEA, saying the embattled agency is "being transformed into a
symbol of censorship and repression."