Article: The importance of the arts sector: how it relates to the public purpose.(The Arts and the Public Purpose)

At an American Assembly convened in 1997--on the arts and the public purpose--seventy-eight men and women examined "the arts as a sector in American life and the extent to which the arts meet the public purposes of the American people."(1) We cochaired that meeting, which included artists, arts executives, critics, businessmen and women, foundation officers, academics, politicians, and policymakers from all over the country--from the commercial, not-for-profit, and "unincorporated" worlds and from the Left, Center, and Right of American politics.(2) The purpose of this article is not to summarize the findings of the ninety-second American Assembly but to build on them--to ...

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