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...American culture is? There’s a fear that the Department of Culture could become an ethnocentric, gender- or class-biased agency. But the department need not take this route and could legitimately maintain a position of unity through diversity—just as the Smithsonian and the NEA have...
...Endowment for the Arts with a few dozen artists. Those who saw the meeting as a step toward a full Obama-administration takeover of an organization meant to uphold artistic integrity, a veritable propaganda machine for the president, cried “fascism.” In a statement, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman responded, claiming that the “call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda and any suggestions to that end are simply false,” further ensuring that the call was “completely unrelated to NEA’s grant making...
...President Barack Obama has asked the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to distribute $50 million in stimulus funds. By early July, 700 arts organizations had received one-time grants ranging from $25,000 to $593,900 to help save jobs. For some groups, these funds are too little too late. "Artists are at the epicenter of a vibrant economy that is reeling from the same effects affecting every other industry," says Yosi Sargent of the NEA. (Read "Bolshoi Blues: Trouble at the Legendary Theater...
Eventually the stimulus package included an additional $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). President Obama has also proposed increasing the NEA budget next year by $6 million, to $161.3 million. And in May he nominated a firecracker, the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, to be the NEA's next chairman. But at the same time, arts groups are worried about what they see as a serious threat to their donor base: the White House proposal to reduce as much as 20% the tax deduction that higher-income families can take for charitable contributions...
...just U.S. weapons that are moving south. Many of the thugs being picked up by the military are from the Barrio Azteca gang, which is based in El Paso but whose members are recruited to work for La Lnea in Jurez. That makes it all the more urgent for U.S. law enforcement to sap Barrio Azteca's strength on the U.S. side. Six Azteca bosses were recently convicted in El Paso on federal racketeering charges. Sheriff Wiles, a Democrat, believes that this attention to localized border strategies is deepening under the Obama Administration and Napolitano, who was governor...