Putting the arts back into the arts

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21 June 2008Bill Ivey has spent the better part of 30 years at the unglamorous intersection of art and policy. Having worked on both sides?for the government, as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (1998?2001), and for a nonprofit, as director of the Country Music Foundation (1971?98)?Ivey is well equipped to lead a fresh discussion about the role of creativity in a healthy democracy. During his stint at the NEA, he dreamed up an unofficial Cultural Bill of Rights, which he fleshes out in his book Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (University of California Press, 2008).

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