Here's an interesting article about the NEA, published twelve years ago in In Motion Magazine. Maybe it's in response to the Mike Daisey thing, maybe not. But it seems relevant to the discussion.
Although the nonprofit arts world contains thousands of organizations populated by tens of thousands of artists, administrators, technicians, trustees and donors, few are aware of its systemic features, nor are there many knowledgeable about its origins and the influences that have shaped its evolution.As with participants in most large organizational systems, the citizens of the nonprofit arts world find it difficult to perceive changes, even massive developments, that occur gradually.
