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title: "The social value of art"
date: 2017-05-03
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:12:41+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-18T23:57:05Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/nea-neh-usa-trump-art-culture-antsy-en/"
description: "Financial support is essential if artistic freedom is to be upheld. What has been a matter of course in Germany for decades is the subject of fierce controversy in the USA at the moment."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Header_NEH_NEA_Statue_of_Liberty_New_York_Photo_Natalie_Wichmann.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The social value of art