Fantastic piece over at POW MAG on the restoration of composer Julius Eastman’s work. The conclusion is sobering.

As we spoke, Rountree told me that every year Wild Up applies for an NEA grant to continue their project of restoring Eastman’s work, and ever year the funding had been approved. But then the administration changed, and the funding for “Gay Guerrilla”—already approved—was suddenly revoked. This is this is the way that culture works, when fascism is in power. The erasure of artists who prod at the hypocrisies of empire is not a historical artefact alongside the music: It is a present, active threat.