This charter from the San Francisco Executive Branch of Arts and Culture details the parameters for charitable trust departments, museums, cultural, educational, and recreational appropriations, and arts commission responsibilities. 

Americans for the Arts offers information on how communities across America have used dedicated tax dollars to support the arts. This handy pamphlet includes case studies, as well as information to help you get started.

Congressional testimony of Richard J. Franke, David McCullough, Ken Burns, Clay Jenkinson, and Amo Houghton. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies holds a hearing annually to determine appropriations for the coming fiscal year. This year's hearing was particularly significant because federal funding for the arts and humanities has recently come under attack. At issue in the session held Thursday, February 16, 1995, was continued federal funding for three agencies: the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),

In June of 1991, I was invited by Representative Barbara Boxer, chair of the Government Activities subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, to testify at oversight hearings on the state of the National Endowment for the Arts. One of the aims of the hearings was to check the temperature of the arts community: had the battle over content restrictions on National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants exerted a chilling effect? Another aim of the hearings was to assess the implications for arts content restrictions of the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a ban on

One of the most interesting policy issues to appear on the political landscape over the past several years is the debate over warning labels on records and tapes. The issue of warning labels is a fascinating study of First Amendment freedom that has focused public opinion around two very different and often conflicting policy options. The first option is what Ithiel de Sola Pool terms a policy of freedom, one that places the emphasis on the rights of the individual over the rights of the state. The second option is what could be termed a policy of justified control, one that emphasizes the

Hearings on Federal Government budget appropriations for fiscal year 1992 for several agencies. This volume includes several government agencies, among those which are related to arts and culture are the following: pages 57-100, the National Gallery of Art; pages 125-490, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum Services; pages 491-756, arts education programs. Includes testimony and statements from government officials and leaders in the arts, humanities, museums, and arts education; and other documentation related to the

Supreme Court Justice William Douglas takes it as an obvious good that speakers and publishers have not been threatened or subdued. Yet, from time to time, participants in public life, legislators and community groups believe there is benefit to subduing them and the material they bring before the nation. Society will profit, it is reasoned, from shaping for the good the ideas its people encounters.

Review by Kenneth Aaron Betsalel of the book The New Politics of Pornography (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1990, 266 p.).

Hearing examining proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, focusing on the Institute of Museum Services; held in Washington, D.C., March 23, 29, April 5 and 27, 1990. This is the third reauthorization for the Institute of Museum services. The original act 1976 which provided for the establishment of the Institute of Museum Services, which was amended in 1980 and 1985, has been amended again to reflect changes in programs and procedures. Includes testimony and supporting statements by government and museum leaders, and other

Hearing on the reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts; held in Malibu, California, March 5, 1990. This is the seventh reauthorization legislation for the Endowments. The original act of 1965 which provided for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, which was amended in 1968, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1980, and 1985 has been amended again to reflect changes in programs and procedures. Includes testimony and supporting statements by government and arts leaders related to the reauthorization.