The "Why Cheap Art?" Manifesto

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By the Bread and Puppet Theater company, "one of the oldest, nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country." Text reproduced in full for screen-readers below the cut:

the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto

PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the
RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS!
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD. You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE

because it is the INSIDE of the

WORLD.

ART SOOTHES PAIN!
Art wakes up sleepers!
ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPIDITY!
ART SINGS HALLELUJA!
ART IS FOR KITCHENS!

ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!

Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!

ART IS CHEAP!

HURRAH!

Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984