President Trump is expected to sign the legislation, which gives financial boosts to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities through the end of the current fiscal year.
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Bipartisan Letter from Over 150 Members of Congress Urges More Money for the NEA
While President Trump has called for the agency’s elimination, more than 150 members of Congress want to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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A Rally at New York City Hall Calls on Trump to Fund the Arts
About 400 people descended upon City Hall today for a “Rally to Save the Arts,” demanding that Trump fully fund the very agencies he wants to completely cut.
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NYC’s Security Estimate for the Trumps Is More Than Double the NEA’s Budget
The current NEA budget is $148 million. A report estimates that one year’s worth of security for the Trumps in NYC will cost $365 million. That’s a 146.6% increase.
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Mississippi Arts Commission Lives to Grant Another Day
Two bills intended to fold the Mississippi Arts Commission into the Mississippi Development Authority died in the Senate and House Appropriations Committees.
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Lawmakers Move to Dissolve Mississippi’s Arts Commission
A vote on Tuesday could effectively do away with the state’s main arts funding organization, bringing its activities under the control of Governor Phil Bryant.
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As Trump Threatens the NEA, an Artist Compiles All the Projects It Funded Last Year
To illustrate the vitality of the National Endowment for the Arts, artist Tega Brain created a website that gathers all the projects the agency funded in 2016.
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Trump Team Plans to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
The budget in the works by the Trump team allegedly calls for the complete elimination of the NEA and NEH, plus the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Why Canada’s New Prime Minister Might Be Good for the Arts, Eh?
Justin Trudeau is the new prime minister of Canada and he’s a Liberal, but where does he stand on the arts?
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Ford Foundation Refocuses Grant Giving to Fight Inequality
The Ford Foundation, the second-largest philanthropic foundation in the US, will restructure its grant-making program to focus entirely on fighting global inequality, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported.
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Faced with Faltering Economy, Mexican Government Slashes Arts Funding
MEXICO CITY — As the US economy has picked up steam in the last few years, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have left the peso floundering.
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On Track to Privatize 400 Jobs, National Gallery Outsources Management of Museum Wing [UPDATED]
On Monday, the National Gallery of London transferred security services for its Sainsbury Wing over to the private security company CIS. The move is the latest in a bitter dispute over the privatization of a huge number of jobs at the museum: 400 of 600 positions, or two-thirds of the museum’s entire staff.