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US participation in 2026 Venice Biennale in limbo amid Trump’s arts defunding
The status of the United States’ participation in the 2026 Venice Biennale is uncertain due to US President Donald Trump…
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Losing federal funding for emergency heritage conservation in the US is a disaster
Cultural institutions in the US provide essential community resources and are responsible for the care of more than 13.2 billion…
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The NEA is on Trump’s chopping block again, amid Doge review
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the last major US federal cultural agency still left standing in Washington, DC,…
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To make up for NEH grants cancelled by Trump, Mellon Foundation gives $15m to US humanities organisations
After the administration of US President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) cancelled around $65m in grants…
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Art trade seeks answers on when, where and how Trump’s tariffs could hit
US President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on his international tariff regime, intended to give individual nations time to negotiate bespoke…
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‘It’s much more extreme’: US institutions and artists enter a new culture war
The fight over America’s cultural soul has begun. In the few short months since US President Donald Trump took office,…
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Trump’s Garden of American Heroes seeks artists for its 250 statues
The US’s National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has published a call for artists for President Donald Trump’s pet project,…
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Trump’s Garden of American Heroes seeks artists for its 250 statues
The US’s National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has published a call for artists for President Donald Trump’s pet project,…
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Democratic lawmakers urge J.D. Vance to save the Smithsonian from Trump – The Art Newspaper
Four members of the US House of Representatives have sent a letter to J.D. Vance, imploring the vice-president to reject…
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Trump administration will use humanities grant money to build ‘Garden of American Heroes’ – The Art Newspaper
One week after abruptly cancelling grants worth tens of millions of dollars that had been awarded to organisations large and…
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