Christopher Knight, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, recently wrote that the American cultural landscape today is far more diverse than it ever was before the 1965 birth of the National Endowment of the Arts. He went on to say that if the NEA is cut or crippled, it will be because of its success in addressing and supporting diversity in the arts. David Pankratz, recognizing the significance of this increased attention to diversity, has written a book wherein he terms multiculturalism a societal ideal that has found a prominent place in complex policy contexts of the arts.

Christopher Knight, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, recently wrote that the American cultural landscape today is far more diverse than it ever was before the 1965 birth of the National Endowment of the Arts. He went on to say that if the NEA is cut or crippled, it will be because of its success in addressing and supporting diversity in the arts.