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Critic Renounces NYU Degrees After School Punishes Pro-Palestine Student
Aruna D'Souza said the university has given up its intellectual mission by penalizing pro-Palestinian dissent.
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Congress Members Demand Investigation Into Trump's Smithsonian Mandate
House Democrats say the president’s executive order targeting “race-centered ideology” jeopardizes the institution’s independence.
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Schomburg Center Turns 100 With an Art Historical Library Card
The New York Public Library’s limited-edition design features late artist Houston Conwill’s cosmogram “Rivers,” inspired by a 1921 Langston Hughes poem.
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Conversation Flows at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
In the heart of the financial district, over 70 artists from across the African diaspora showed works to an eager VIP audience.
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Papal Conclave Yields a Holy Bounty of Memes
From comparisons to the US election to speculation about where the smoke really comes from, we’re turning to humor as we contend with a possibly frightening transfer of power.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lays Off 29 Workers
The museum union pledged to “fight back on these unjustified layoffs,” which the institution said were a response to financial challenges.
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Colosseum Denies Reports of Tourist Injured on Its Grounds
Italian outlets reported that an American man was impaled by a metal fence outside the ancient amphitheater.
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National Endowment for the Arts Cuts Millions in Grants
As Trump threatens to eliminate the agency altogether, award recipients are scrambling to recoup lost funding.
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Judge Halts Trump’s Cuts to Museum and Library Funding Agency
The temporary ruling comes as Trump moves to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities in a newly released budget proposal.
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After a Decade in Storage, Banksy Mural Goes on View in New York
The public can view "Battle to Survive a Broken Heart," made in 2013 on a Red Hook warehouse wall, before it goes up for auction.
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Senate Republican Deploys Law Used in McCarthy Era Against Pro-Palestine Nonprofit
The NYC arts and advocacy organization The People’s Forum says claims of ties to the Chinese Communist Party constitute a “classic right-wing strategy” to undermine dissent.
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Smithsonian Institution Says It Won’t Remove Anti-Segregation Exhibits
The institution denied reports that objects related to the Civil Rights Movement will be removed from two museums amid Trump’s threats to erase “race-centered ideology.”