Donald Trump - Hyperallergic (Page 15)

Interview

Dictator Selfies and a Superhero Trailer: Glimpses of the New Propaganda from Trump's Recent Summits

Propaganda continues to evolve and the latest version, used by the Trump administration during the Singapore meeting, looks to corporate communications for pointers.

Opinion

The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children's Detention Camp

President Trump's new detention center for immigrant children in Texas houses 1,700 boys in a former Walmart and includes a mural featuring his image.

Victor Pinchuk listening to a speech by Donald Trump at the 2015 Yalta European Strategy conference in Kiev (screenshot by th

In Brief

Special Counsel Investigates Billionaire Ukranian Art Collector's $150,000 Donation to Donald Trump

Special Counsel Mueller's investigation revealed that Pinchuk made the single largest outside donation to Trump's foundation in 2015.

News

A Trump Portrait Contest Provides Some Artistic Catharsis

Winners of an open call contest for portraits of the 45th US president include a photo of a cheese slice draped over a doughnut and a painting of Trump piggy-backing on Putin.

Installation view of Indecline's "The People's Prison" (2018) at the Trump International Hotel & Tower

News

In a Trump Hotel Suite, Artist Collective "Jails" the President

The shadowy artist collective Indecline converted a room at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Manhattan into a solo jail cell for a man playing President Trump.

President Trump speaking before an equestrian portrait painting of President Theodore Roosevelt (official White House photo b

In Brief

US Government Can No Longer Fund Official Portrait Paintings

The "Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act" prohibits the use of federal funds for commissioning portrait paintings.

President Trump giving a speech on October 13, 2017 (official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen)

News

Trump Signs Bill Boosting the NEA and NEH Budgets He Wanted to Eliminate

The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities will each receive about $153 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2018, around $3 million more than in 2017.

Art

Refereeing Trump

Richard Kraft has classified Trump’s daily actions “in the fashion of a soccer referee,” assigning yellow and red cards to the President’s conduct.

First Lady of Maryland, Yumi Hogan, and First Lady of Indiana, Karen Pence, visit Tracy's Kids art therapy at Georgetown Hosp

In Brief

Karen Pence Is Praising NEA Art Therapy Program on White House Blog

The Second Lady of the United States has written extensively in support of an agency Donald Trump wants to shut down.

Art

Judith Bernstein Shines a Blacklight on Trump's Crimes

We cannot ignore the fact that Americans voted for Trump.

In Brief

Trump's Proposed 2019 Budget Would Slash Arts Funding in Attempt to Close NEA and NEH [UPDATED]

Just like last year, Trump's budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In Brief

Fox Business Anchor Outraged at Guggenheim in Wake of Golden Toilet Offer

From a slew of negative reviews on Yelp and Facebook to a Fox anchor calling on chief curator Nancy Spector to resign, the backlash to revelations that the Guggenheim offered the Trumps a gold toilet is many-pronged.