I’m under two crazy deadlines right now, so this needs to be short, but suffice it to say that Fox News’s demagogue-in-chief, Glenn Beck, has aimed his crosshairs at the NEA. This is really nasty, ugly stuff.
Ian Moss has more here.
Arlene Goldbard, too.
Today’s must-read blog post for fellow culturati is Ian Moss’s ruthless takedown of the would-be culture-warrior jackasses at Fox News.
Teaser:
As is rather par for the course for Fox, the network has trouble getting even the most basic facts in its story right. First, these programs are not actually funded with taxpayer dollars at all [...]
We’re going to steal President Obama’s thunder a little bit, as he is set to announce this on June 22nd. We just wanted our members to be in the know so they can begin thinking and working on this immediately!
Many of our member organizations — from small, one-person outfits to huge, multi-million dollar non-profits — [...]
I don’t always agree with Arlene Goldbard, but she’s always a good, thought-provoking read. Her latest blog post addresses Rocco Landesman, the presumptive nominee to chair the National Endowment for the Arts.
I have no doubt that Rocco Landesman has the intelligence to [understand the differences between producing commercial theatre and leading the NEA], and certainly, [...]
According to the LA Times, it looks like Chicago attorney and amateur bassoonist Michael Dorf is the front-runner to head the NEA under Obama.
If you noticed my recent “Fractured Atlas On the Road” post, you may have seen that I attended Americans for the Arts’ Arts Advocacy Day the other week. I’ve been to this event a few times in the past and, although I do not believe in a big, one-day push for advocacy myself (I’m [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a spending bill that increases the National Endowment for the Arts’ budget by about $20 million. President Bush is considered likely to sign the bill, which will represents a 16% increase over the NEA’s budget from last year.
Some of you may know that I haven’t always been [...]
This piece originally appeared in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on January 15, 2006.
When one talks to arts industry insiders about their advocacy priorities, high on most lists is more dollars from Uncle Sam. Although the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and other sources of federal funding account for only a tiny portion of overall [...]
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