Also, forget about the Department of Education. Government isn’t big enough.
Quincy Jones urges national culture secretary to Cabinet
Artists behind effort to add post
Andrea Billups
washingtontimes.comLegendary music producer Quincy Jones wants a Cabinet-level secretary of arts and culture post, and he and other artists think a hipper and pop-culture-savvier new president could finally make it happen.
“The next conversation I have with President Obama is to beg for a secretary of arts,” he said in a recent radio interview.
Mr. Jones has advocated for a national culture secretary over the past 10 years, saying that youth need to understand the key role that the arts play in broadening their education and expanding what he sees as the nation’s increasingly stagnant culture. (more…)
