In 19 90, you became known as one of the n e a four four performance artists whose national endowment of the arts grants were declined. Senator jesse helms claimed the work was offensive. And this attempt by washington to censor the arts has forever change the structure of public funding in the united states. You won your first court case for reinstate ment of the original grant in 19 93. But this ended up going all the way to the supreme court, and you lost the appeal in the supreme court.