But as Caroline Hightower, the institute's director pointed out, book design remains a controversial art.
The Turner Prize has been fuelled by controversial art works over the last three decades.
Last year some 175 students signed up to learn the tricky and controversial art of toreo.
Artists should work harder at educating our society as to the benefits of controversial art.
Now artists are generally chosen by panels made up of arts professionals and community leaders, and one result is more conservative, less controversial art.
He said he is not pleased to be associated with it now in light of recent turmoil over taxpayer support of controversial art.
Long a support of avant-garde, sometimes controversial, art and digital culture, the project increasingly came into conflict with the Austrian political establishment during the 1990s.
These questions still arise in discussions of controversial art or in debates about ground zero development.
So Mr. Helms doesn't want his tax money to go to controversial art.
I prefer that my tax money go to controversial art.