Sure enough, the ink hardly dried on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 before the predictable chorus of complaints could be heard regarding the inclusion therein of $50 million worth of support for the National Endowment for the Arts. Following a week of Republican mockery on the subject, one might have expected the [...]
Boy, I picked a hell of a year to graduate, didn’t I? I’ve been hearing and reading rumblings all week about how the economy is in a really scary place right now, and blog headlines like “Europe’s entire banking system on the edge of the abyss” don’t do much to put one at ease. So [...]
It’s time to revisit the blogroll as part of our series introducing those other arts/philanthropy/music-related sites on the web. For this edition, I’ll be writing about a series of blogs I discovered during summer of last year, while I was in the midst of my internship for the Hewlett Foundation and becoming much more interested [...]
It’s official. As of 10:17 pm tonight, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has passed both houses of Congress, and the arts are invited to the party. Quoth Americans from the Arts, by email: We can now confirm that the package DOES include $50 million in direct support for arts jobs through National Endowment for [...]
This post by Andrew Taylor intrigued me: …Which brings us to systems like SonicLiving, a live concert database that draws on my iTunes library and Pandora radio stations to suggest upcoming shows in my town. In a few short steps, the system flagged three upcoming concerts by favorite artists that I didn’t know about (because [...]
Via Fractured Atlas, it looks like the fabled $50 million NEA stimulus might actually have survived the reconciliation process (pdf, page 4) between the House and Senate packages of the bill…seemingly at the expense of three times that number for the Smithsonian. And on a related note, how many of you knew that the NEA [...]
Right now, the conference committee is hammering out the final version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The goal is to reconcile the House version of the bill with the Senate version of the bill. The House version includes $50 million for the NEA to help keep jobs in the arts intact. The Senate [...]
Obviously, the big story this week has been the effort to get the NEA funding through the Senate, which as it stands doesn’t look in very good shape with the Coburn amendment having passed. However, Americans for the Arts is taking out a series of full-page ads in several political newspapers and organizing a letter-writing [...]
Me, a couple of days ago: Anyway, it’s not like the arts are in poor company. Big Bad Sen. Tom Coburn also wants to eliminate funding [in the stimulus package] for casinos, aquariums, zoos, local parks, highway beautification, and just about everything else that’s not a tax cut. (Don’t worry, it’ll never pass.) The Senate, [...]
This is what Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) has to say about the $50 million for the NEA being included in the stimulus bill: Representative Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, wants to transfer the proposed NEA funding to highway construction. He failed to get the House to vote on his proposal, so he is now trying [...]
Hello Scott, thank you for the question! These issues are addressed several times in the report, mainly in the section...
Hi, Ian! Just curious: did this study address anything regarding geography or age issues?
Thanks for putting this up on the web. I’d like to get the thesis if you don’t mind sending it. I want to...
I am pursuing music full time. all or nothing i guess.
Katherine what an in depth article. Thank you so much for writing this. The arts community needs something like this!