The Arts Today

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Pagina 4 - They are available in several electronic formats to facilitate viewing on-line, transferring, downloading, and printing. Comments are welcome at your local...
Pagina 4 - Office publishes five electronic journals that examine major issues facing the United States and the international community. The journals — Economic Perspectives, Global Issues, Issues of Democracy, US Foreign Policy Agenda, and US Society and Values — provide analysis, commentary, and background information in their thematic areas. All...
Pagina 53 - Arts is to foster the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the United States and to help broaden the availability and appreciation of such excellence, diversity, and vitality.
Pagina 6 - Americans in the arts and humanities to join with their fellow citizens to make the year 2OOO a national celebration of the American spirit in every community, a celebration of our common culture in the century that is past and in the . . . new millennium so that we can remain the world's beacon not only of liberty but of creativity long after the fireworks have faded. The...
Pagina 4 - USIA's electronic journals, published and transmitted worldwide at three-week intervals, examine major issues facing the United States and the international community. The journals — Economic Perspectives, Global Issues, Issues of Democracy, US Foreign Policy Agenda, and US Society and Values — provide analysis, commentary, and background information in their thematic areas.
Pagina 52 - ARTSEDGE helps artists, teachers, and students gain access to and share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum.
Pagina 6 - Today, on the threshold of a new millennium, these vital pursuits — in our individual lives and in the life of our democracy — are more essential than ever to the endurance of our values of tolerance, pluralism and freedom, to our understanding of where we are and where we need to go. Let us remember that the arts and humanities are a necessity, not a luxury, and that every American deserves to have access to them.
Pagina 5 - Whether or not one plays an instniment, reads poetry, leams to pirouette, or spends hours alone in a local art gallery, we all have the capacity to be moved by a song, a poem, a story, a dance, a painting. We can feel our spirits soar when we see an intriguing film or the sudden illumination of a new idea or an old idea put in a new way. At a time when our society faces new and profound challenges, at a time when we are losing so many of our children, at a time when so many of our people feel insecure...
Pagina 6 - The enduring worth of our nation lies in our shared values and our soaring spirit So instead of cutting back on our modest efforts to support the arts and humanities, I believe we should stand by them and challenge our artists, musicians and writers — challenge our museums, libraries and theaters. We should challenge all Americans in the arts and humanities...
Pagina 53 - States holding some 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge." The Institution is also a center for research dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history. The Smithsonian is composed of sixteen museums and galleries and the National Zoo and numerous research facilities in the United States and abroad.

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