The Public Interest

Supporting the arts—whose responsibility?

Winthrop Knowlton

Fall 1986

FOR MORE THAN a quarter of a century there has been waged in this country a fierce, if intermittent, debate on the question of whether the federal government should endorse and fund a program of direct public support of the arts: in other words, we have been asking ourselves, should we have an arts policy?

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