The National Endowment for the Arts, a remnant of John F. Kennedy's dream of a "New Frontier in the Arts," may be getting a significant boost: yesterday the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives recommended that the NEA receive a $35 million increase. Galen Brown at Sequenza21 reports on the various hurdles that stand in the way of the proposal. Messages to politicans should help the cause — and, while you're at it, you might want to suggest that your senator and representative support the Internet Radio Equality Act, which would strike down the music industry's destructive new royalty rates for online broadcasting. For more, read Byrne.
