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$900 Billion US Stimulus Package Includes $15 Billion for the Arts

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 22, 2020December 23, 2020

The deal provides crucial aid to the performing arts sector and creates two unique Smithsonian museums, one dedicated to Latinx history and the other to women’s history.

Posted inIn Brief

House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues From US Capitol

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 23, 2020November 5, 2020

The new legislation, which must now be voted on in the Senate, orders the removal of all statues of “individuals who voluntarily served” the Confederacy from display in the Capitol building.

Posted inNews

New Stimulus Protects Some Union Workers, But Not All

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 2, 2020April 15, 2020

The new CARES Act calls for “union neutrality” for companies with 500-10,000 employees receiving loans, which may impact the wave of unionizations at nonprofit museums.

Posted inOpinion

The Performance Art of Congressional Protest

Avatar photo by Zachary Small September 7, 2018September 10, 2018

How do we analyze the frenetic outbursts at Wednesday’s Congressional hearings through the lens of aesthetic protest.

Posted inArt

How the GOP’s Tax Reform Could Hurt Art Institutions

Avatar photo by Aaron Short November 3, 2017November 9, 2017

Museums, nonprofits, private collections, and other art institutions may be significantly affected if the proposed plan succeeds in eliminating the estate tax.

Posted inOpinion

A Painting Censored by GOP Lawmakers Deserves to Be Seen

by Ric Kasini Kadour January 10, 2017January 10, 2017

A high school senior’s painting of a protest scene has become the subject of a controversy since it was hung (and removed, and re-hung, and re-removed, and re-re-hung) at the US Capitol, but nobody is looking at it closely enough.

Posted inIn Brief

No Money for Portrait Artists in Congress’s New Spending Package

by Laura C. Mallonee December 17, 2015December 17, 2015

Congress will vote on a new tax and spending bill Friday, and in case you wondered, not a dime of the $1.14 trillion dollar package will go to oil portraits.

Posted inNews

California Artists’ Resale Royalty Law Survives Court Ruling, with Small Change

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 6, 2015

On Tuesday the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered its ruling on the California Resale Royalty Act (CRRA), deeming it unconstitutional but, unlike the District Court that examined it back in 2012, deciding that the offending clause could be removed without having to strike the entire act.

Posted inIn Brief

The ART Act Is Dead, but Congressman Will Reintroduce It

by Jillian Steinhauer January 13, 2015January 17, 2015

The proposed US Congressional bill to give visual artists royalties on the resale of their work at auction is dead, but a House Representative plans to revive it.

Posted inNews

Symbol of Disrepair: US Capitol Dome Is Falling Apart

by Jillian Steinhauer September 5, 2012

The conventions are here; election season is officially upon us. I figure, since everyone’s already busy having strong opinions and heated discussions about all sorts of political issues, why not throw another one into the mix, something all of us can tweet and roll our eyes and get annoyed about?

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