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Judge Denies Motion to Block Trump’s Anti-Trans Arts Funding Bar
The ruling means the National Endowment for the Arts can continue to impose Trump’s “gender ideology” criteria on its grant applications.
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Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
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Organizations Lose Pivotal Grants as DOGE Takes Axe to Humanities Agency
Museums, libraries, and archives are receiving grant termination notices immediately halting funding for myriad arts and culture projects.
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Republican-Led Bill Would Penalize Texas Museums for “Obscene” Art
The proposed legislation comes after police seized photographs by Sally Mann from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Meet Bai Jo the Fish, Scholar-in-Residence at a Maryland Museum
The bubble-headed goldfish questions if only humans can be artists.
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Artist Pulls Out of Harvard Talk Over Academic Freedom Concerns
The university was meant to host artist Janiva Ellis in conversation with art historian Rizvana Bradley, who has also withdrawn her participation.
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Researchers Discover Joan Miró Painted Over a Portrait of His Mother
The revelation comes almost 50 years after the artist’s foundation first detected the likeness of a mysterious woman behind the deep blue of “Painting” (1927).
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Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces
After devastating fires blazed through the region, residents are holding on to the intricate glazed tiles that survived — small but meaningful remnants of their homes.
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Deadly Myanmar Earthquake Devastates Cultural Sites
Amid a rising death toll and worsening human rights crisis, the 7.7-magnitude quake took down mosques, pagodas, monasteries, and other landmarks.
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Dozens of Museum Agency Workers Put on Leave Amid Trump Overhaul
Processing of 2025 grant applications has been halted after Trump moved to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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LA Artist Joe Goode, Who Put His Own Spin on Pop Art, Dies at 87
His practice was driven by a constant striving to reframe how we see works of art and the world around us.
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Christophe Cherix Named MoMA’s New Director
The museum’s longtime prints and drawings curator will take over from Glenn Lowry, whose tenure was marked by controversy.