The Arts: The Lannan Foundation

Lannan was founded in 1960 by J. Patrick Lannan, Sr., a self-educated scholar and financier who believed in the cultural importance of innovative and controversial forms of visual and literary art. The Foundation supports long-term projects in the visual arts, literature, indigenous communities, and cultural freedom. Audio archives of the Reading & Conversations series contain discussions with the likes of Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Mark Strand, Eduardo Galeano and Billy Collins. The Bookworm section archives programs from the nationally syndicated radio interview program and features such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker and Oliver Sacks. <http://www.lannan.org/>