Artists want Cabinet-level 'arts czar': Politico
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 7:41AM
In Barack Obama, the arts community believed it had found a kindred spirit — literary and urbane, a president who would restore culture to its proper national place after what many perceived as an eight-year exile under his predecessor.
Yet, for some in the art world, watching the Obama administration’s approach to the arts so far has been an exercise in keeping expectations in check and a game of wait and see.
They wanted a Cabinet-level “arts czar,” or at least a senior-level White House arts adviser.
What they got was Kal Penn, a 32-year-old actor best known for his role in the “Harold and Kumar” movie franchise about a pair of pot-smoking slackers. more
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