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10.21.2009 5:06 pm

Update: Landesman speaks to the Post about Art Works

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)

Rocco Landesman didn’t pick just any old time to include St. Louis on his Art Works tour. He’s scheduled come here the week of Nov. 23 - the week of Thanksgiving.

Landesman and his wife, Debby Busch…

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10.21.2009 12:46 pm

NEA chairman includes St. Louis on national arts tour

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)

Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)

Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced today in New York that he will visit St. Louis - his hometown - and other cities on a six-month “Art Works” tour.

“Art Works” is the new…

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08.26.2009 1:37 pm

NEA’s Landesman says art thrives here

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)

Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)

Rocco Landesman, the Broadway producer who was just confirmed as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is impressed with the growth of the St. Louis theater scene in recent years.

“When they give the Kevin Kline awards,…

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08.18.2009 1:44 am

Rocco does Peoria

St. Louis-born Rocco Landesman is coming home to the Central Time Zone. The recently confirmed Director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) smeared Peoria theater, and by extension all small-town theater, in a pre-confirmation interview with New York…

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08.11.2009 2:10 am

Update on NEA director Rocco Landesman

When Rocco Landesman was appointed director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), I asked rhetorically if we couldn’t do better than have a commercial producer of Broadway musicals be our national arts’ czar, however limited a job that is considering its…

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05.18.2009 3:29 am

Rocco Landesman at NEA

Is anyone else disappointed that President Obama appointed a Broadway producer to head the National Endowment for the Arts? In my opinion, Broadway theater has done more to debase American taste in the arts than any other single force, even taking “American…

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05.13.2009 1:13 pm

Rocco Landesman to head NEA

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, scion of a family once prominent in St. Louis’ arty Gaslight Square scene,  has been nominated to chair the National Endowment for the Arts, according to the Associated Press.

Landesman, 61, is known for bringing such hits as…

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