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Tag: Missouri State Council of the Arts

Get government funding out of the arts? Get real!

by The EditorsJuly 27, 2011November 7, 2019

By Lamar White Jr., The Lens contributing opinion writer | In a recent opinion piece for The Lens, Kevin Kane argued against government support for the arts. Louisiana’s richly indigenous culture is self-sustaining – and should be, Kane argued. His views are not surprising. A New Yorker in our midst by way of a Tulane […]

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