NYT: Buscan más dinero para las artes en los EU

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Americans for the Arts, a lobbying group, plans to ask Congress on Tuesday to increase the annual appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts to $200 million from the $155 million that was provided for the agency in the recent omnibus bill. The request will come on the group’s 22nd annual Arts Advocacy Day. In the past the organization has requested $176 million for the agency, the amount the Endowment was given at its highest financing, in 1992. But this year the need of arts institutions is greater, the group has said, and President Obama said during the presidential campaign that he would request an increase. About 500 arts advocates are expected to meet with about one-third of Congress on Tuesday. Among those scheduled to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies are the singers Linda Ronstadt and Josh Groban, and the jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.