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Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unraveling America’s Cultural Infrastructure
May 21, 2025
Abolishing cultural infrastructure and the deregulation of emerging technologies are two sides of the same anti-intellectual coin.
Read More about Arts Commentary: The Battle for Imagination — Unraveling America’s Cultural InfrastructureObservers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and geographies.
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Theater Commentary: Live Theater—An Incomparable Art Form
Protecting live theater, along with the other arts that the NEA has supported, is urgent, and it begins, as it did with me, by loving theater, either as a regular member of the audience or as someone onstage or behind the scenes.
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