Sentences with phrase «public funding for the arts»

So while our commitment to continuing public funding for the arts is absolute, our responsibility to the cultural sector is to help it become more financially sustainable.

Exhibitions of his work in the late 80s, often controversial in content, sparked debates about public funding for the arts, censorship, First Amendment rights, and broadly, what defines art.

Paul Hobson, Director, said: «The current reduction in public funding for the arts, combined with alarming proposals to remove art subjects from the curriculum in England and the unaffordability of higher education for those who would have wished to pursue a career in the Arts, will have a devastating effect on our creative economy and visual culture in Britain a decade from now.

The assembled crowd also learned that county contributions typically account for less than 10 percent of organizations» budgets — a fact likely to surprise those who decry public funding for arts organizations as some sort terrible form of cultural welfare sure to lead directly to a communist revolution.

The Arizona Commission on the Arts invites individuals and organizations that received grants in the past year to show Arizona what public funding for the arts can accomplish.

With this new initiative, Art Basel will support the non-profit sector of the artworld, at a time when public funding for the arts has been dwindling.

These exhibitions, and the controversial works they presented, sparked a larger international and ongoing debate about public funding for the arts, censorship and other First Amendment concerns, as well as the definition of that which is considered art.

On 1 October 2010, in an open letter to the British Government's culture secretary Jeremy Hunt — co-signed by a further 27 previous Turner Prize nominees, and 19 winners — Gillick opposed any future cuts in public funding for the arts.

VIA President Bridgitt Evans said in a press statement: «We are thrilled to fund over USD$ 300,000 in grants to support new work by groundbreaking artists and independent organizations for projects that may not otherwise have come to fruition given the current state of public funding for the arts.»

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Public funding for the arts in Ghana is practically non-existent, but a thriving network of artists and arts professionals is emerging

Across the country, orchestras, theaters and operas reacted with alarm that public funding for the arts could be cut under President Trump.

These exhibitions and the controversial works they presented sparked a larger international, ongoing debate about public funding for the arts, censorship and other First Amendment concerns, as well as the definition of that which is considered art.

In 1988, Mapplethorpe's major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included sexually explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the arts and the definition of art itself.