Word: nea
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Shaw added, however, that the American NEA, whose budget was recently cut in half, faces worse fiscal problems. "Mr. Reagan is ahead of Mrs. Thatcher in these things." Shaw said...
Shaw added that only with financial support from public organizations like the ACGB and its American counterpart, the National Endowment for the Arts, (NEA) can art "be made effective outside the clique of the learned and the wealthy...
...Shaw, is one of the most powerful, most passionately scrutinized arts administrators in the world. Sir Roy, who will speak on "Politics and Policies in the Arts" tonight at the Kennedy School, wields a budget of 80 million pounds (roughly $145 million)--about 25 per cent more than the NEA's budget in a country with less than a sixth of our population...
...though. With the arrival of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, cuts in both arts budgets loom large, along with, in Britain, calls from conservative politicians to move arts patronage back into the private sector. (In this country, Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman has daintily halved the NEA's budget.) As British culture becomes more and more commercialized and government resources dwindle, British artists and administrators will closely examine the arts scene in America, to see what happens to a culture overwhelmingly dependent on the private sector--corporate grants, individual contributions and ticket sales--for its support. Presumably...
Rather than become a rubber stamp organization, the Task Force's report to the President seems to have awakened support for continued NEA funding. The House Appropriations subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Sidney Yates (D-Mass), has recommended a budget of $157.5 million, while the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Education have recommended $126.9 million and $119.3 million, respectively. The $88 million figure seems to have bitten the dust, but the precise amount will not be determined until the Senate convenes at the end of July. The OMB still insists it wants deep slashes...