Federal arts chair Rocco Landesman to tour country
By Hillel Italie, APWednesday, October 21, 2009
NEA chair to tour country
NEW YORK — The country’s top arts official is going on the road.
Rocco Landesman, chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, announced Wednesday that he will spend six months visiting towns and cities nationwide, starting Nov. 6. He called it the “Art Works” tour, a triple entendre referring to works of art, the effectiveness of art and that art is a worthy form of employment.
The first stop: Peoria, Ill., which the Broadway producer disparaged over the summer as having an inferior theater community to that of Chicago.
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