National Endowment for the Arts

1,600 Museums Offer Free Tickets To Military Families

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: American Civil War Center, Video, Blue Star Museums Initiative, Military, New Mexico Museum of Space History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Blue Star Families, Joining Forces Initiative, National Endowment for the Arts, Military Families, Defense Department, Impact News

WASHINGTON -- More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in...

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Poetry Out Loud Makes Beautiful Noise

John Lundberg | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Cornelius Eady, Performance Art, Kristen Dupard, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud, National Endowment for the Arts, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Culture News

It was a long road for Kristen, who had to advance from her classroom to a school-wide competition, then on through regional/state competitions, just to make the finals in Washington, D.C.

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Learning How to Be a Professional Artist Is a Lifelong Process

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Maya Lin, Public Art, Vanderbilt University, Bureau of Labor Statistics, University of Indiana, Mary Miss, Business of Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Tom Otterness, Arts News

What was considered so important for artists to know back then now seems vaguely irrelevant. These days, the focus of artist-as-businessperson workshops and classes is not how to apply for money but how to earn it -- how to be entrepreneurial.

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Not to Be Missed Japanese Paintings at the National Gallery of Art

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 04.30.2012

One of Japan's most celebrated cultural treasures, "Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings" by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800) is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through April 29.

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NEA Has No Love For PBS

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Pbs, Metropolitan Opera, Video, Arts Grants, Independent Lens, Arts, American Masters, Funding, Pbs Newshour, Live From Lincoln Center, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News

NEW YORK — The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year. "Live From Linco...

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National Endowment For The Arts Sharply Cuts PBS Grants

The New York Times | ELIZABETH JENSEN | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Pbs, Neal Shaper, Bps Newshour, Metropolitan Opera, Alyce Myatt, Great Performances at the Met, Betsy Voice, Independent Lens, Pov, Paula Kerger, American Masters, Live From Lincoln Center, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Media News

The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significan...

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Art Criticism On Wheels, The Motor City Way

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Best of Detroit, Detroit Non Profits, Community Arts Journalism Challenge, Knight Foundation, Detroit Impact, Critc Car Detroit, Detroit Arts, Nea, Knight Foundation NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge, Knight Foundation Detroit, Criticcar, Video, Detroit Around Town, Dan Shaw, Jennifer Conlin, Critic Car, CriticCar Detroit, National Endowment for the Arts, Detroit News

When summer dies down and fall arts events pick up, be on the lookout for a brightly painted van roaming Detroit streets: The drivers want to hear wha...

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LOOK: Baldwin, Other Celebrities Head To Capitol Hill To Press Arts Funding Cause

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Congress, Capitol Hill, Marsha Blackburn, Harper Hill, Melina Kanakaredes, Ben Folds, Americans for the Arts, Nea, Arts Funding, Tiffani Thiessen, Alex Baldwin, National Endowment for the Arts, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts. Baldwin and o...

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National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX [books] Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press

Anis Shivani | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Poetry Controversy, Poetry Publishing, Blazevox, Small Press Poetry, Geoffrey Gatza, Nea, Blazevox Books, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Contests, Vanity-Presses, Indie Publishing, Poetry, Books News

Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.

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Beloved Arts Programs In Danger!

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Pbs, Video, Art and Money, Documentary Series, Art21, Arts Budget Cuts, American Masters, Pbs Arts Documentary, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, Ai Weiwei, Arts News

The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced they were considering cutting federal production aid for PBS Arts series by possibly over $1 mi...

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Kickstarter Is On Track To Beat The National Endowment For The Arts In Funding

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Video, Yancey Strickler, Rocco Landesman, Kickstarter, Kickstarter Art, Kickstarter National Endowment for the Arts, Nea, KickStarter.Com, Kickstarter Funding, National Endowment for the Arts, Kickstarter Nea, Culture News

Fundraising website Kickstarter is on track to beat the National Endowment for the Arts in funding, Talking Points Memo reports. In an exclusive in...

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Villanova Cancels Gay Artist's Workshop

AP | PATRICK WALTERS | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Catholic Universities, Video, LGBT Issues, Aids Research, Controversy, Villanova, Queer Art, Gay Artists, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, Tim Miller, Arts News

PHILADELPHIA — Villanova University has canceled a workshop on personal narrative by a gay performance artist, saying his shows aren't in keepin...

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Artists on a Mission

George Heymont | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Joshua Dylan Mellars, Film, Mickey Hart, David Driver, MacArthur Fellowship, Carlos Santana, Michael Daube, Play Like a Lion, Way of Life, National Endowment for the Arts, Ali Akbar Khan, Alam Khan, Video, Arts News

Two hugely inspirational documentaries recently screened at the San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival (Third i) examine artists who have found themselves (quite unexpectedly) on a mission that may well keep them occupied for the rest of their lives.

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Military Funding vs. Funding for the Arts: What Does the Difference Say About American Values?

Brendan McMahon | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Winston Churchill, Department of Defense, Opera, Employment, Mitt Romney, Theater, Nea, UK Arts, Arts Funding, Arts News, Mitt Romney 2012, Unemployment Crisis, Arts, Newt Gingrich, National Endowment for the Arts, Republican Party, US Budget, Arts Education, Arts News

If we as Americans are so willing to grossly over-fund our military and defund our arts, our deepest expression of ourselves both at home and abroad is simply an expression of war.

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APAP 2012: 10 Things the Dance Field Should Be Talking About

Marc Kirschner | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, Pina, Ballet, Dance, Nea, American Ballet Theatre, National Endowment for the Arts, Cinema, New York City Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet, Slidepollajax, Arts Presenters, Arts News

By the end of this year, globalization in dance won't be an emerging trend... it will be a permanent state of existence, and every company should be aware of their global positioning, even if they've never toured outside of their home city.

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NEA Budget Gets Hit While Smithsonian Budget Sees An Increase

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Federal Funding for the Arts, U.S. Congress, US Funding, President Obama, US Government, U.S. House of Representatives, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Funding, National Endowment for the Humanities, Republicans, Arts News

As a result of the spending bill that passed Friday, allegedly to avoid a government shutdown, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National En...

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Can Art Scientifically Help Traumatized Soldiers?

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Music Therapy, Ptsd, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Art Therapy, Walter Reed Medical Center, National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Veteran Art Therapy, Arts News

Making art has been a longtime coping mechanism for pain, depression and heartbreak, but now art therapy may finally gain scientific validation as a c...

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National Endowment For The Arts Saves Miami Neighborhood

Miami Herald | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Opa-Locka, Opa-Locka Triangle, National Endowment for the Arts, Magnolia North, Miami News

Can a few million dollars, a public art project and a bold redevelopment plan reverse the sliding fortunes of one of South Florida’s toughest neighb...

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First-Ever Taskforce Of 13 Federal Agencies Will Step Up Research On The Arts

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts is forming a task force of 13 federal agencies to foster more research on how the arts affect human...

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Culture And Colors: An Autumn Sojourn To New England's Small Museums

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Portland Museum, Mead Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, Art, Clark Art Institute, Art Exhibit, Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Art Museums, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Whitney Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Arts News

In between museums I stop along the way... Late fall in New England offers some interesting exhibits for the cultural traveler and the last gas...

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Romney, the Financial Engineer As Job Destroyer, Now Sets His Sights on the National Endowment for the Arts

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Bain Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, Frank Hodsoll, Culture, Ronald Reagan, Amtrak, Arts, Mitt Romney, High Speed Rail, National Endowment for the Arts, Business, Politics News

Mitt Romney proposes that we cut the National Endowment for the Arts budget. Well, that would help a great deal. That annual budget is expected to be $146 million in 2012, significantly less than Romney and Company made on the Dade International deal alone.

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Art Prevails Where Our Government Fails

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Americans for the Arts, Politics, Over a River, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Financial Crisis, Congress, Robert Lynch, Solyndra, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News

Christo and Jean Claude, two immigrant Americans, are showing the nation the vitality of its arts and the creative process in not only enhancing our lives, but also as a tool for economic development and well being.

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Bullseye! The Arts Are In Romney's Crosshairs

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Arts, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, National Endowment for the Arts, Mitt Romney 2012, National Endowment for the Humanities, Republicans, Arts News

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has come out against government-sponsored arts and cultural programs. In an op-ed piece that appeared in USA To...

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More Artists, Less Money: Can They Adapt To The Recession?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.07.2012

This is the first in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture: The Recessionary Arts. Find out more about it here. Despite...

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Art Works (And Is Celebrated at The White House)

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: President, White House, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, Leaders, Washington, Writer, Arts, First Lady, World, National Endowment for the Humanities, America, California, Philanthropy, Boards, Museums. Maine, Michelle Obama, National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards, Museum, Education, Artist, Scholar, Washington DC, Massachusetts, United States, Texas, Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Country, Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Mentors, Conneticut, Arts News

On Wednesday, November 2, I enjoyed an uplifting ceremony at the White House celebrating the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards - the...

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