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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the last major US federal cultural agency still left standing in Washington, DC, has come under the axe of US President Donald Trump once again.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alison Cole |Helen Stoilas |Catherine Hickley
In the first 100 days of his second term, the administration of US President Donald Trump wasted no time enacting a plan to force the cultural sector into ideological conformity. A slew of drastic and possibly unconstitutional executive actions have pushed cultural institutions—including museums, libraries, performing arts and educational institutions—to a critical moment of reckoning.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas
The fight over America’s cultural soul has begun. In the few short months since US President Donald Trump took office, swathes of the country’s cultural infrastructure have been dismantled and efforts are being made to reshape what remains as instruments of White House policy. The impact has been swift and shocking to many in the cultural field, raising questions about what the arts will look like under Trump and spurring calls for a co-ordinated resistance.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Kelli Morgan |Benjamin Sutton |Helen Stoilas |Elena Goukassian
In January, US president Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” , in effect terminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across federal institutions.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas
In an executive order issued on Thursday night, US President Donald Trump targeted the Smithsonian Institution, vowing to reshape the country’s largest network of museums and cultural sites. The order asserted that federal museums should be “uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing”.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas |Torey Akers |Lee Cheshire |Tom Seymour
For art museums, building bigger is not necessarily better, and offering free admission may actually make the most financial sense. This is according to a new report by Remuseum, an independent research project organised by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The project aims to help museums think outside the institutional box.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Barbara Reina |Helen Stoilas |Joe Ware
Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier, an experimental film and photographic installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass Moca), reflects memories literally frozen in time. In collaboration with the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), the exhibition (until 14 December) is an intimate portrait of Switzerland’s Rhône Glacier, which scientists predict will be gone by the year 2050, melting prematurely due to climate change.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Torey Akers |Adam Schrader |Helen Stoilas
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to eliminate seven federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The order, which was signed on Friday (14 March), states that the president has determined a total of seven agencies to be “unnecessary”, and that each will “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law”.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Adam Schrader |Gareth Harris |Helen Stoilas
The US General Services Administration (GSA) under President Donald Trump briefly published then removed a list of federal buildings it seeks to offload, including several properties of cultural interest. The “non-core property list”, published 4 March, initially included 443 properties but was revised to 320 after backlash over the inclusion of properties like the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Jason Kaufman |Ruth Lopez |Helen Stoilas
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) has received an anonymous $10m gift to support its performance programme. The gift, which will allow the museum to establish a Performance Fund endowment to support live art programming, comes shortly after the museum hired Moira Brennan, the former director of the Map Fund at Creative Capital, to be its new director of performance and public programmes.
