U.S. Reconfigures Its Cultural Diplomacy

“The State Department has enlisted four national cultural organizations to broaden exchanges between American artists and foreign audiences and share the country’s arts management expertise. … This umbrella effort,” known as the Global Cultural Initiative, “is taking a number of programs that federal cultural agencies and national organizations have underway that are more on-the-ground than marquee. The primary partners in the new program are the Kennedy Center, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities.”