Word: nea
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Traditionally, NEA grants are recommended by a peer panel and referred to the National Council on the Arts, the agency's 26-member advisory board, but the chair has the authority to approve or deny grants on their...
...late afternoon statement by the NEA said the council rejected the application in May, and Frohnmayer accepted the recommendation, but didn't tell the Boston museum because of a clerical error...
...Owing to an administrative over-sight, the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Boston was not notified," the NEA said. "The Art Endowment deeply regrets the error. It always is our intention to notify rejected grantees as soon as possible so that they can go on with their business...
...NEA controversy began last year when Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and other conservatives in Congress objected to NEA funding of works they considered obscene...
Last week, a House compromise that would have allowed the NEA to award grants without content restrictions was derailed by the Senate Appropriations Committee, which reinstituted an anti-obscenity pledge that artists must sign before they receive grant money...