Not quite the plan some of us expected but the extra $50 Million to the NEA might help out in ways we have yet to measure. NEW YORK. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Smithsonian Institution have secured a small allotment of federal funding as part of the $787bn American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama on 17 February, following fears that arts groups would be completely excluded from the stimulus package. ... The NEA will receive $50m to distribute to non-profit arts organisations while the Smithsonian gets $25m to repair its facilities. -The Art Newspaper