<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>National Endowment for the Arts: News &amp; Videos about National Endowment for the Arts - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about National Endowment for the Arts from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:06:44 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>National Endowment for the Arts: News &amp; Videos about National Endowment for the Arts - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about National Endowment for the Arts from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Ex-pupil defends Obama aide over controversial advice in 1988</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/02/jennings.student/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/02/jennings.student/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A former student of an Obama Administration official is coming to his defense, as critics seek to use a 20-year-old incident to call for the official's resignation.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Doors close as funding for the arts plummets</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/03/13/arts.recession.economy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/03/13/arts.recession.economy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For nearly 60 years, the Baltimore Opera Company was a staple of the arts scene in its region. 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More than 10,000 of you responded to our April poll, which asked, "What cuts wo...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CLINTON'S EFFECT ON THE ARTS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/12/14/77280/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/12/14/77280/index.htm</guid><description>No surprise, arts administrators welcome the Clinton victory as the end of a 12-year battle with a Republican White House over freedom of expression. The same years also saw funding of the National...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>When girls get sad, ethics in the army, renting rooms to ex-convicts, and other matters. GREAT INSIGHTS FROM FEDERALLY FUNDED AR</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/25/74692/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/25/74692/index.htm</guid><description>A performance artist in New York since the 1970s, Karen Finley offers monologues accented by shrill torrents of foul words, ideas, and acts. Often, after smearing her semi-naked body with food and ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Welfare recipients at the opera, the Jimmy Carter fad, who wins the long-legged beauties. THE VIEW AT THE MET</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/04/23/73403/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/04/23/73403/index.htm</guid><description>The arguments swirling about the National Endowment for the Arts seem curiously incomplete. 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