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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...
...NEA finds matching grants for public television. It funds exhibits and theater productions, opera and ballet; it foots the bill for necessary but mundane chores which would never interest a private supporter, like the cataloguing of the Whitney's entire collection. It backs controversial exhibits which corporations hesitate to support. But most of all, a grant from the NEA legitimizes an organization in the eyes of corporate and private patrons. A theater company with a $100,000 federal grant usually finds private sector support much easier to come by. "The NEA has generated at least $5 for every federal dollar...
...William Green '55, a New York Republican who declared himself opposed to the depth of cuts, said recently he understood the artist's fears. "There's been a sense that Reagan's proposed cuts for the NEA come as a response to what we felt to be the excessive politicization of that agency by the Carter administration," Green says. "Although I feel that the NEA has come to be relied on excessively by corporations to show them what to support, either through challenge grants, or through direct support. I do not feel that these corporations are capable of evaluating...
...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...
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...