Series: Clippings Files

General
Scope and Content Note: Robert Hughes, “Whose Art Is It, Anyway?”, Time (June 4, 1990): 46-8; Newsweek (July 2, 1990), special issue with cover “Art or Obscenity” and various articles in the Arts section; Robert Hughes, “The NEA: Trampled Again,” Time (June 22, 1992): 43; Inside Arts, 7, number 2 (April/May 1995), with articles on the decline in private and public funding for the performing arts and a deal between the NEA and Borders Bookshops; Time (June 12, 1995), special issue with cover “America's Cultural Revulsion” and various articles on sex and violence in the media; “The Counter-attack of God,” The Economist (July 8-14, 1995): 19-21; Robert Hughes, “Pulling the Fuse on Culture,” Time (August 7, 1995): 60-8; “Hard Money: Funders Talk about Funding for Museums,” Museum News (September/October 1995): 32-5, 51-2, and 62-3.

NEA documents, correspondence and clippings, 1974-1975

NEA Arts Administration Conference, 1975 October 16-17: agenda and Professor Taylor's notes

NEA Directory, NEA documents, correspondence, and clippings on NEA and NEA-funded activities, 1976-1980 (one clipping dates from , 1988, but refers to the late , 1970s)

1983
Scope and Content Note: Text of lecture by Professor Taylor to the Madison Civics Club, March 12, 1983, on “Public Funding for the Arts”; press releases and notes regarding the NEA, 1983.

“Obscenity, 1989”
Scope and Content Note: Clippings on Senator Jesse Helms's attack on NEA-funded art and artists, the U.S. Senate's response, and the NEA in 1989.

“NEA Obscenity Battle, 1990”: clippings and an NEA press release, , 1990

“Obscenity, 1991”: clippings, , 1991

“NEA, 1992”
Scope and Content Note: Clippings on Donna Shalala's appointment to the Department of Health and Human Services, John Frohnmayer's resignation from the NEA, and controversies surrounding the NEA.

1993
Scope and Content Note: Clippings on Jane Alexander's appointment as chair of the NEA Board and controversies surrounding the NEA.

“General, 1994”: clippings on the NEA

“Arts Endowment, 1995”
Scope and Content Note: Clippings, notes, NEA press releases, correspondence, newsletters.

“Art References, 1996”: clippings, newsletters, press releases on the NEA

“NEA, 1997”
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence with Jane Alexander, clippings on the NEA, especially Alexander's resignation and her replacement.

, 1998: clippings and newsletters on the NEA

“NEA, 1999”: clippings on the NEA

“NEA, 2000”: clippings and newsletters on the NEA