This new phase in art funding looked to shuttling forms of American cultural production into international waters.

艺术资助的新阶段则希望将美国文化生产的形式带入国际水域。

In this iteration of arts funding, art became a vehicle for the kind of soft diplomacy and cultural exchange that politicians and lawmakers were invested in during the Cold War.

在这一轮对艺术的投资中，艺术成为了一种软外交和文化交流的工具，就像冷战时期政治家和立法者所投资的那样。

So I'll be tackling the history of how the US government got into the art game, and how arts funding went from being a work relief program to supporting innovative new work and international diplomacy efforts.

所以我将讲述美国政府是如何进入艺术游戏的历史，以及艺术资金是如何从一个工作救济项目变成支持创新的新工作和国际外交努力的。