Endowment

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Detail from The Creation of Adam Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has written about some of the many ways that the National Endowment for the Arts benefits both the Met, the largest museum in the country, as well as cultural programs and establishments in every single state. Read his article for the New York Times, “Why Art Matters to America“.

One crucial program administered by the NEA that we had not been aware of is the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program. It is responsible for making many of the “blockbuster” museum exhibitions that have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people possible. Among them—“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Chagall: Love, War and Exile” at the Jewish Museum, the upcoming major exhibition on Michelangelo that will bring together masterpieces from across the world to the Metropolitan Museum. Over 1,200 exhibitions have been insured either pa…