Arts news

• We are all made of stars, part 3: from the Women’s March in Los Angeles back to Europe

  25-02-2017 22:00
  
  Womens March, Los Angeles, California, 21 January 2017In Los Angeles, I remembered what was like to be in a liberal city. I realised that with the people I had met along the journey so far, I had to be careful about what I was saying to so as not to offend anyone.We talked to a lot of the protesters who attended the march, and of course I related to most of thembut my vision of the US had changed. I could see how distant and disconnected these people were from the people I had met in the Southe
  
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• Federal arts funding is on the White House’s hit list

  25-02-2017 22:00
  
  Federal arts funding, ignored by Democrats and Republicans during the presidential campaign, is finally getting attention. Americas cultural agencies, including the two national endowments, for the arts (NEA) and for the humanities (NEH), are operating on money appropriated until April. There is much talk that the next omnibus budget bill will provide no money for these agencies, essentially closing them.
  This would throw the baby out with the bath water. The culture agencies do plenty of fine
  
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