All Posts Tagged With: "arts funding"
What’s Wrong with Government Funding of the Arts
People who oppose Soviet-style collective farms, government subsidies to agriculture, or public ownership of grocery stores because they want the provision of food to be a private matter in the marketplace are generally not dismissed as uncivilized or uncaring. Hardly anyone would claim that one who holds such views is opposed to breakfast, lunch, and [...]
24Aug2011 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | ContinuedNPR Quotes Reed on State Arts Subsidies
In a recent report on state governments’ ending subsidies to the arts, National Public Radio included quotes from FEE President Lawrence W. Reed, such as: “Arts are simply too important to be dependent upon the government.” Listen to the audio file here.
13Jun2011 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 0 comments | ContinuedArt Needs No State Subsidies
It’s feeding time again, and artists and cultural groups are lining up at the trough. The bailout package approved by Congress in February threw another $50 million at the arts. For the better part of the past year, music impresario Quincy Jones beseeched Barack Obama to add a secretary of arts to his cabinet. In [...]
23Oct2009 | Bruce Edward Walker | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Market Endangers the Arts?
Where a man sits often determines where he stands. Dana Gioia, who now sits as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), is living proof of this dictum. In the course of defending a bigger NEA budget, Gioia told an approving Frank Rich of the New York Times last June: “If you [...]
1Sep2003 | SHIKHA DALMIA | 1 comment | ContinuedTo Subsidize or Not to Subsidize
As a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan, I participate in an Internet e-mail forum known as Savoynet, where everything about the famous librettist and composer of late Victorian comic opera comes under discussion. Recently a forum participant lamented the demise more than 20 years ago of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, which began producing the [...]
1Jun2003 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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