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...fiscal year 1982, the proposed Reagan budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is $88 million, 50 per cent less than the figure suggested by former President Carter. The administration points out that when the NEA and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) were founded by Johnson in 1965, they had a combined budget of $2 million. Trimming arts funding is not an attempt to eliminate federal support for the arts. Reagan's spokesmen say. It's just an effort to keep things in perspective...
Pruning the program won't destroy the big institutions; the Metropolitan Opera or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York may be closed a little more often and offer fewer new productions or exhibits. But most such organizations receive less than 10 per cent of their funding from the government, so they'll just have to fund raise a little harder...
...unable to support the arts adequately, there is no common denominator in the arts--for example, the many varied styles of theater--as there is in rock music. Despite the incentives provided by the government in the form of a tax deductible contribution of up to 5 per cent toward the arts, statistics show that only 21/2 per cent of profits are channeled toward the arts on the average. Less than 1/2 per cent goes toward the performing arts. Since this seems likely that many of the non-profit institutions, the small companies where the theater originates, will cease...
...these corporations are capable of evaluating the arts themselves...When the private sector is left to decide for itself, there will be a definite trend toward funding what is traditional rather than what is new. Like most bureaucracies, the NEA should be trimmed, of course, though not 50 per cent...
Some six weeks ago, President Reagan formed a Task Force on the Arts and Humanities, whose purpose was to determine the past effect of government support, and to gauge, as best it could, the result of the proposed 50 per cent cut. The Task Force, headed by Charlton Heston, includes such notables as Beverly Sills, general director of the New York City Opera. Roger Stevens, chairman of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Nancy Hanks, ex-NEA chairman...