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While it struggled to pull the economy out of its tailspin, the White House and Congress paid fitful attention to culture, not all of it welcome. During the debate in February over the federal stimulus package, the Senate passed a version of the bill that explicitly barred money from theaters, museums and other arts groups. Though that provision was removed in the final version, it impressed on the arts community that it had to remind leaders that "real people" work in their sector of the economy, which provides 5.7 million jobs and nearly $30 billion in tax revenue...
...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...
...people who are dealing with economic policy [in the White House] are not talking to the people who are dealing with cultural policy, because they don't see any connection," says David A. Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "What's clear is that there is a direct connection between economic recovery and cultural spending." Ross would like to see a federal rescue mission for the arts, a $250 million fund to stabilize museums and libraries. That would be only a small fraction...
...White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) Strange, brutal crimes afflict a German village in 1913, and everyone--the stern adults, the winsome children--is a suspect in Haneke's spare, unsparing Palme d'Or winner. A masterpiece...
...Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola; in theaters 6/11) Members of an Italian family fight and unite, but this ain't The Godfather. The glorious black-and-white imagery can't rescue Coppola's film from a fatal case of dramatic inertia...