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How Will the US Government Shutdown Impact Museums?
The National Gallery of Art and others will use funding to keep the lights on for a few days while some National Park sites will close as employees are furloughed.
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Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase
Librarians, historians, and volunteers are forming networks to chronicle signs and objects they fear could disappear from museums and national parks.
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Activists Condemn Arrest of NYC Protest Photographer Alexa Wilkinson
Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime for social media posts critical of the New York Times’s executive editor over the publication’s Israel coverage.
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Artists Are Projecting Satirical Anti-Trump Images Around LA
From Jesus being arrested by ICE to Trump eating the Epstein files, an anonymous art collective’s “guerrilla projections” use humor as a form of protest.
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See Photos From the Massive Protest Against Netanyahu in NYC
Marchers took to the streets to demand an end to Israel’s mass killings of Palestinians as dozens walked out of the prime minister’s United Nations speech.
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London’s National Gallery to Open New Wing
The new space will house an “expanded collection,” suggesting possible shifts in the museum’s longstanding focus on art made before 1900.
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Israeli Artists Urge Judy Chicago to Withdraw Tel Aviv Exhibition
"To save Gaza (and Israel from itself), boycott Israel,” said Guy Ben-Ner, who signed a letter calling for the show’s cancellation. “Isolate it.”
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Hand-Holding Trump and Epstein Statue Appears on National Mall
The apparently satirical artwork portrays the president and the convicted sex offender gazing giddily at each other.
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This Frida Kahlo Painting Could Shatter Auction Records
Four years after a Kahlo self-portrait became the most expensive work by a Latin American artist, “The dream (The bed)” (1940) could set a new benchmark.
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Trump's "Gender Ideology" Ban for Art Grants Ruled Unconstitutional
A Rhode Island judge said the National Endowment for the Arts must stop requiring applicants to comply with the administration’s anti-trans requirement.
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Art History Professor Placed on Leave Over Charlie Kirk Posts
Karen Leader, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, had posted about the right-wing figure’s record of hateful speech.
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Sprawling Mural in Support of Immigrants Unveiled in St. Patrick's Cathedral
The 12-panel artwork by Adam Cvijanovic is the largest ever commissioned for the Neo-Gothic landmark.