Plenty of Cash, But Who Should Be Getting It?

Louisville’s 50-year-old Fund for the Arts set a record this year, raising $8 million to be divvied up between the area’s cultural organizations. For a city Louisville’s size, that’s no chump change. But “significant as the fund is, it’s by no means innocuous. Every few years, it seems, controversy arises about whether the fund is pursuing the proper goals and bolstering the proper groups.”