Alas, Germany Didn’t Allocate $54 Billion In Relief Funding To The Arts

Butts In the Seats: You may remember reading that Germany had rolled out €50 billion ($54 billion) in funding for the arts a few weeks back. The news was touted as putting arts funding in the US to shame. While it may ultimately still be the case that aid to arts will put the US to shame, the claim that all that money is going to the arts is not accurate.