A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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How will Trump’s executive order affect the Smithsonian?
The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump’s executive orders.
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Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE
Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.
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A museum’s confession: why we have looted objects
An exhibition at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
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Newport obsessed over the Vanderbilts. But its Black leaders thrived long before the Gilded Age.
Dating back to even pre-revolutionary years, Newport was home to entrepreneurs, political pioneers and philanthropists from across the African diaspora.
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Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ is now at an Australian museum
The album, which features 31 songs, was previously owned by Martin Shkreli, who served seven years in prison for securities fraud, and had to forfeit it to the U.S. government.
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Opinion: Open Wall nights could lead to the next artistic visionary
An art gallery worker lost his job in February after hanging up his own art. NPR’s Scott Simon thinks an Open Wall night might be a good way to give artists who are not huge names a chance to shine.
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How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it
First of all, can we stop using the word “liminal”? Bianca Bosker spent five years doing in-depth research for Get the Picture — an irreverent book about “strategic snobbery” in the art world.
