House speaker Newt Gingrich has called for abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts. We discuss the pros and cons of federal funding of the Arts with: 1) Art critic HILTON KRAMER. He is the founder of the Arts magazine, "The New Criterion," and is former chief art critic for The New York Times. He has also published several volumes of criticism. KRAMER is against federal funding for the arts. 2) JOHN BRADEMUS is Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and former Democratic Congressman from Indiana. He also helped write the legislation that created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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