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The list of domestic spending cuts for the new national budget announced by the US government this morning includes $13 million in funding cuts for both the NEA and the NEH, but that's just the start of the damage. $8.5 million has been cut from the NGA budget, and reduced funding to a program that
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This weekend, the usually free National Gallery of Art might not be. In fact, it could not be open at all. With the possibility of a government shutdown looming as a result of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over the national budget, public museums may be the first institutions to cl
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If you, like I did, logged on to the internets this morning and noticed something about the Natural History Museum being on fire, don't worry: it's not the museum that's on fire, it's their facilities building. Bad, but not catastrophic. Phew.
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David C. Ward is co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture [http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhhide.html] exhibition, which has become a lightning rod for right-wing attacks on the federally funded Smithsonian institution. The show is the fi
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About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside Transformer's gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That's not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from p
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Washington, DC — This is a protest post. A post about a protest in the city that is Paris done in the American wide style (not the Las Vegas lights-and-money-style) on the banks of the Potomac; the city of pearly bureaucrats, and neo-cons, and neoclassical columns; all things National, American, U.S
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I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/ginsberg/index.shtm#] of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Gi