Tuesday, June 20, 2017

The Kennedy Center May Honor JFK, But It's LBJ's View Of The Arts That Prevailed

The upcoming expansion of the D.C. arts center is making an extra point of paying tribute to the president it's named after. And yet, Philip Kennicott writes, John F. Kennedy was no aesthete himself, and what he valued in the arts isn't what became national policy after he died.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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