Obama Reduces Arts Funding

This is an interesting commentary on President Obama cutting arts funding at a time when the nation’s arts community is suffering from the worst economic slump since the Great Depression. This is evident in all cultural life in the U.S., from slow or non-existent sales at small art galleries to the strangulation of major symphony orchestras because of plummeting ticket sales and diminishing endowments. The Honolulu Symphony recently declared bankruptcy and closed, and it appears the same fate awaits the Philadelphia Symphony.