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Rocco Landesman, Controversial New Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts | By Lee Rosenbaum
LEE ROSENBAUM Brooklyn, N.Y. Veteran Broadway theater producer Rocco Landesman, off to a rocky start in his new gig as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), demonstrated at a meeting of arts funders in Brooklyn two weeks ago that he had no plans to change his act. In the first ...
We Know Art Works: Rocco Landesman Addresses Grantmakers in the Arts
We Know Art Works: Rocco Landesman Addresses Grantmakers in the Arts
arts.gov — October 21, 2009 Brooklyn, NY Rocco Landesman. Photo by Michael Eastman. Hi. It’s good to be back... in Brooklyn, where I lived happily for 18 years. If you can linger here for a little while, get to Coney Island, a colorful corner of ... (more) We Know Art Works: Rocco Landesman Addresses Grantmakers ...
The Associated Press: Federal arts chair to tour US for 6 months
google.com — 5 days ago NEW YORK The country's top arts official is going on the road. Rocco Landesman,... chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced Wednesday that he will spend six months visiting towns and cities nationwide, starting Nov. 6. He ... (more) The Associated Press: Federal arts chair to tour US for ...
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Rocco Rococo -- By: John J. Miller
The Corner on National Review Online — The new chief of the National Endowment for the Arts, fresh from comparing Barack Obama to Julius Caesar, informs that tax dollars may soon fund rap music and graffiti art: ...

No time for Sergant
Power Line — ... What will Eaton do for an encore? Sergant's demise, which Eaton memorializes in the song, is already old news, even if the chorus remains timely. How about something for NEA chairman Rocco Landesman...maybe something along the lines of "Rocco Can Really Hang You Up the Most." ...

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He Came, He Saw, He Kowtowed -- By: Jonah Goldberg
article.nationalreview.com 30 days ago — I t seems Rocco Landesman, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, didn’t get the memo, literally. On September 22, stung by controversy over the administration’s effort to turn the arts community into proselytizers of its very special brand ...
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