THE ARTS

NEA Budget Action: A House subcommittee in Washington voted Thursday to increase the 1992 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts by $3 million--to a total of $178 million for the fiscal year. The Bush Administration, in an apparent rebuke to the controversy-torn federal arts agency, had recommended no change in the NEA’s appropriation from this year’s $175 million. The action in the subcommittee chaired by Rep. Sidney Yates (D-Ill.) increased funds for the NEA’s media arts and arts education programs, but adoption of a final budget remains weeks away and spirited floor debates in the House and Senate are seen as inevitable.