{"id":780153,"date":"2026-07-23T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780153\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:32:19","slug":"france-eases-arts-funding-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780153\/","title":{"rendered":"France eases arts funding freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>July 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>An uproar over an instant freeze on subsides has led to a rapid reversal by the French government.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Culture has let it be known that funds which were frozen on July 3 will now be paid in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The easing affects 28 organizations including seven opera houses \u2013 Lyon, Strasbourg, Toulouse (pic), Bordeaux, Nancy, Montpellier, Rouen \u2013 four orchestras \u2013 \u00cele-de-France, Pays de la Loire, Lyon, and Lille \u2013 and 17 theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht July 22, 2026 An uproar over an instant freeze on subsides has led to a rapid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-780153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}