Good NY Times article on arts and NEA funding in the current stimulus bill, and informed speculation on who will be the next NEA Chair. Article says that Chicago lawyer Michael Dorf appears to be the front runner. Mr. Dorf served as an arts policy advisor to Obama during the campaign, and has worked for the transition office. Also speculation that Wynton Marsalis could be up for the post, though we think it's the Obama M.O. to go for a policy wonk rather than acelebrity.
Can we just say how lovely it is that the campaign actually had an arts policy advisor? Bear in mind that GW Bush appointed country singer Lee "God Bless the USA" Greenwood to the National Council on the Arts. (We're not kidding.)
The fog is lifting!
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