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Article: United States : National Gallery of Art gets $40 million for East Building repairs.
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- November 2, 2009
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Byline: sanjayV03
When the Interior Department appropriations bill is signed by President Obama this weekend, the National Gallery of Art will receive $40 million to begin the repair work on the marble facade of the East Building.
Officials at the gallery, which will receive an overall appropriation of $167 million for fiscal 2010, announced in May that the 31-year-old addition needed a major renovation. The marble panels are tilting outward, and the gallery plans to remove all 16,200 of them and install new supports behind each.
The Senate and House this week approved the fiscal 2010 appropriations for the federally supported arts agencies and ...