Why Does the Government Pay for Art?

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Is art a public good? Why is the government even paying for art in the first place? Today, Danielle explores the US government's history of commissioning art and how that lead to the NEA.

Check out the companion video by The Art Assignment!    • Should Art Be Publicly Funded?  


Written and Hosted by: Danielle Bainbridge
Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios
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Works Cited:
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Heckscher “Arts and the National Government” July 11th 1963 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...
https://www.arts.gov/open-government/...
https://hyperallergic.com/70673/the-n...
Cwi, David. "PUBLIC SUPPORT OF THE ARTS: THREE ARGUMENTS EXAMINED." Journal of Cultural Economics 4, no. 2 (1980): 39-62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41810278.
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