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Article: National Gallery's East Building to get $40 million for repairs
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- October 31, 2009
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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
organizations. Worked out by a joint House-Senate conference ...