The NEA @ 50
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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts. Its chairman Jane Chu speaks with incoming Brooklyn Museum president Anne Pasternak about fulfilling the NEA’s mission of providing Americans the “opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities.”
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