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Six Designs for Trump’s Border Wall, from Solar Panels to a Mexican-American Co-Nation
The Department of Homeland Security's call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.
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Bipartisan Letter from Over 150 Members of Congress Urges More Money for the NEA
While President Trump has called for the agency's elimination, more than 150 members of Congress want to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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From Tiny Trumps to Terrifying Ties: Big League Memes for the 45th President
The meme-ification of Donald Trump is a growing phenomenon that speaks loudly to the absurdity of the 45th president.
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Iranian Gallery Drops Out of AIPAD Photo Fair Over Trump’s Travel Ban
The Tehran-based Ag Galerie had planned to show Bahman Jalali's arresting photographs documenting the Iran–Iraq war in the 1980s.
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A Virtual Border Wall Displays Art by Immigrants
Art director Maddy Kramer's site "The Most Beautiful Wall" is a digital structure 19,000 miles long that is showing work made by immigrant artists.
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Watching and Waiting
Until 16 months ago, when Donald Trump said he was running for the Presidency, I never was a political person.
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Artist Receives Death Threats Over Her Anti-Trump Billboard
One side of artist Karen Fiorito's billboard depicts a scowling Donald Trump flanked by fiery mushroom clouds and symbols that merge the Nazi swastika with the dollar sign, while the other features a message of unity.
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Protesting the President with a “Trumpy the Rat” Inflatable
BravinLee is raising $10,000 on Kickstarter to design a giant, inflatable rat made to look like Donald Trump.
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Political Cartoonists Talk Trump at the Museum of the City of New York
On March 23, five US-based political cartoonists will discuss the realities, challenges, and urgency of their work today.
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Creative Responses to Trump’s Plan to End the National Endowment for the Arts
It's only been a little over a day since Donald Trump formally proposed defunding the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, but already people in creative fields are responding, well, creatively.
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Trump Budget Calls for End to National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities [UPDATED]
The president's budget proposal for 2018 would do away with the two funding agencies and ramp up military spending by $54 billion.
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Trump's Travel Ban Ensnares Artists and Authors
In the weeks since President Trump's initial travel ban was put into effect and blocked, artists and writers entering the US have faced strenuous scrutiny from Customs and Border Patrol.