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ACLU Sues NEA for Enforcing Trump’s Anti-Trans Mandate
The suit argues that the federal art funding agency's new grant requirement violates the First Amendment in what may be the first major legal challenge to the controversial policy changes.
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Virginia Museum Receives "Transformative" Gift of Haitian Art
Collectors John Fox Sullivan and his late wife Beverly Sullivan gave more than 100 works by renowned 20th-century and contemporary artists to the Fralin Museum.
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Small Arts Nonprofits Face Uncertainty as NEA Cuts “Challenge America” Grant
The $10K award, canceled for the 2026 fiscal year amid Trump’s anti-DEI mandates, was long seen as an entry point for receiving federal funding.
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Mexican Artist Decries “Censorship” of Queer Nun and Priest Portraits
Fabián Cháirez’s exhibition in Mexico City was suspended on a judge’s orders after the Association of Christian Lawyers filed a legal complaint.
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How Will Trump’s Tariffs Affect Art Supplies in the US?
"We expect prices to rise or severely limit the colors we can offer artists," said Roger Danilo Carmona of Manhattan’s Kremer Pigments.
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Ming Fay, Artist of Whimsical Sculptural Gardens, Dies at 82
A co-founder of Manhattan’s Epoxy Art Group, Fay used installation to explore the connections between humanity and nature.
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Italian Photographer Gusmano Cesaretti’s Chronicles of East LA
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired 238 boxes of the artist's images, negatives, books, and ephemera.
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Art Institute of Chicago Returns Sacred Buddha Statue to Nepal
The sculpture was identified by the online heritage activist group Lost Arts of Nepal as matching one stolen from Kathmandu.
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No Other Land Creators Issue Urgent Call to Action in Oscars Speech
The winners of this year’s Best Documentary Feature Film urged world leaders to “stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”
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Research Shows How Mount Vesuvius Turned Man’s Brain Into Glass
A glass sample collected from the skull of a young adult victim of the eruption in Herculaneum yielded evidence of human brain matter.
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Charlottesville Nonprofit Seeks Artists to Transform Melted Robert E. Lee Statue
The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
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Stunning Frescoes of Dionysian Cult Rituals Unearthed in Pompeii
Spanning three walls of a recently excavated banquet hall, the murals shed light on ancient customs associated with the god of wine, festivities, and ecstasy.