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The role of the NEA: Is there a place for controverial art in the...
A piece about arts funding by David Smith, author of Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy, was run in the Wall Street Journal today. The column discusses President...
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Increase Support for the Office of Museum Services
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter to encourage her fellow senators to ask the Senate Appropriations Committee for $50 million in funding for the Office of...
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Artist as Small-Business Owner
On Monday, the NY Times reported that President Obama’s proposed budget includes an $8 million dollar increase to National Endowment for the Arts funding. Not surprisingly, Republican presidential...
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Links List: Power to the people– Arts & Labor,Teamsters and Kickstarter
In a published letter, Occupy Wall Street’s Arts & Labor calls for an end to the Whitney Biennial in 2014. [ARTFORUM] A false press release was circulated announcing the Whitney Museum’s break...
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Capitalism Can Save Art! Down With Capitalism!
It’s difficult to craft a logical response to something as inconsistent and unreasonable as Camille Paglia’s recent Wall Street Journal essay ”How Capitalism Can Save Art.” But, when links to the piece...
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State of the Art
I had to check the date and make sure it wasn’t April 1st when I saw this: the Vatican will have a pavilion in this year’s Venice Biennale. The pavilion’s exhibition, “Encyclopedic Palace” will...
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State of the Art
Leonard A. Lauder has given The Met a gift of Cubist works worth over $1 billion Obama’s proposed budget would increase arts funding by about $200,000. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]...
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