Rocco Landesman (Damon Winter/The New York Times) Straight talk. That’s in shorter supply in the Obama administration than a lot of us had hoped. And by that I mean straight as in right at ya rather than around, over or not at all. But newly-installed head of the National Endowment for the Arts Rocco Landesman […]
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More on Arts Funding: Art, Entertainment and Rights of Citizenship
Elatia Harris, commenter extraordinaire, left this as a response to a comment left to the post below. Thank you Elatia for your reliably insightful and sense-making point of view. Re: Arts funding: Much depends on whether you think art follows consumer taste or leads it. And on whether you would be happy for art to […]
Arts Funding, Policy and Politics
The politics of art. That isn’t my field, and yet it is. I listened to the back and forth about arts funding during the Stimulus Bill discussions with mixed emotions. Sometimes the arguments rang true, sometimes they didn’t. The fact is that OF COURSE we need to fund and support the arts. Those who think […]
Reality and Reinventions
Elatia Harris left the text below as a comment to my posting here yesterday. As is often the case with Elatia’s responses to issues I have raised here, this one is too good to not spotlight up front. She identifies concerns that are of significance to all of us who are signed up to ride […]