A new portrait of the US leader, looking defiant following the attempted assassination last year, has drawn, er… mixed responses

The Bay Area institution announced another round of surprise layoffs in a public letter from the director

Following the US president’s on-off tariff confusion last month, the fair’s director sought to reassure exhibitors, despite “significant impacts”

The US president continues to strongarm his way into power over American culture

The emergency funds will go to humanities councils in all 50 states and six US territories

Collectors are cancelling purchases from and travel to the US, auction houses are rescheduling sales and uncertainty reigns

The Trump administration has taken aim at numerous arts bodies. Elizabeth Larison, the director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship, argues they need to remain steadfast in their missions—and consider strategies for survival

Nikas Safronov, an artist known for his celebrity portrait and braggadocious public persona, claims Putin contacted him personally to emphasise the commission’s importance

The Trump administration’s efforts to slash funding and influence programming have pushed cultural workers to organise

Meanwhile, Americans of all political stripes disapprove of the president’s cultural takeover while Max Hollein says Trump’s new anti-DEI rules “do not apply” to the Met

Four members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the US Vice-President to articular their "great concern over [the Smithsonian's] future"

Further weak auction results, plus economic turmoil, raise fears the trade may have passed its peak

Funds from cancelled National Endowment for the Humanities grants will help realise one of the US president’s pet projects

What are the implications of the US president’s attempts to gut and transform arts organisations? Plus, discussions about the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2025 and works by two leading Irish modernists

The American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are suing to block the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services

There is widespread confusion about whether or not new US tariffs—and those imposed by trading partners in retaliation—apply to art and antiques

The agency has placed 85% of its employees on administrative leave

State humanities councils and other grantees received notices from the NEH and Doge this week that their grants were being cancelled immediately

Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has affirmed in a memo to staff that the institution will “remain steadfast in our mission to bring history, science, education, research and the arts to all Americans”

All but the most elite art schools risk losing crucial funding through grants and federally supported student financial aid programmes

As art institutions—particularly in Washington, DC—succumb to the White House’s anti-diversity directives, a veteran of the museum world warns of the dangers of giving in to the whims of the Trump administration

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe

Vice President JD Vance will oversee the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” and deny funding to exhibitions that “degrade shared American values”

The painting, which was commissioned in 2019, caught the ire of the president, who claimed it was "purposefully distorted"

In a letter to the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ new, Trump-appointed acting director, the agency's advisory board emphasised that its activities are governed by Congress

Keith Sonderling, the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, plans to steer the agency to “promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country”

Nearly half the art and historic preservation workers at the General Services Administration have been put on leave and are expected to be terminated

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is listed alongside six other ‘unnecessary’ organisations

The list of buildings, briefly posted on the General Services Administration website, included 443 properties, many with cultural and historic significance

The street mural, just steps from the White House, is being removed after a Republican legislator threatened to withhold federal funding for DC unless the area was renamed "Liberty Plaza"