Today on Modern Art Notes: When it comes to arts policy, the Obama administration has been a disappointment. It has helped to eliminate arts-related jobs by proposing spending cuts for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After saying that art education would be a top arts-policy focus, the Obama administration has allowed art education funding to be slashed. Obama has failed to pursue most of the arts-related campaign promises he made in 2008. Instead, tokenism: The White House has been good at letting us know when it’s hung some new art.

On MAN I look at a new White House initiative and how arts lovers could use it to demand better arts policy from the White House.

[Image: President Obama straightens Thomas Moran’s The Three Tetons (1895) in the Oval Office. Photo by Pete Souza via the White House Flickr stream.]

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