The Smithsonian’s museums in Washington, DC, and New York City will remain open for now

All but four members of the National Council on the Humanities were informed via email that their positions had been terminated

Most of Washington, DC’s top attractions will shutter by the beginning of next week unless US lawmakers reach an agreement to fund the government

Following years of strife and multiple leadership changes, will these important institutions meet the rigorous standards set by the American Alliance of Museums?

The National Endowment for the Arts' policy changes, made in response to one of Trump's executive orders, were found to violate the First Amendment

Karen Leader was placed on administrative leave from her tenured position at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton

The state’s only public liberal-arts school continues its political transformation after it became a target of Governor Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke”

The artist claims a symposium this weekend at the Smithsonian American Art Museum was made private, and guests were requested not to record it or post about it on social media

Artist-in-residence programmes are grappling with cancelled funding and artists from abroad staying away

The Art Newspaper's editor-in-chief in the Americas discusses the Trump administration’s interference in museums, we take an inside look at the season's first art fair and discuss landmark video art

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s secretary, wrote in a staff letter and another addressed to the White House that the institution will continue its internal review

As the White House reviews the Smithsonian's programming, Lonnie G. Bunch was called in to meet with the president and one of the aides leading the review

While Miami Beach fights to keep its famous rainbow crosswalk on Ocean Drive, the one in front of the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando—the site of a 2016 mass shooting—has been painted over

After filing its lawsuit, the Woodmere received a letter from the Institute of Museum and Library Services informing it that the full $750,000 grant had been reinstated

Amy Sherald, the historian Ibram X. Kendi and others personally attacked in the Trump administration’s list of reasons for why the president “is right about the Smithsonian” hit back

The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian

A bipartisan group of Senators has proposed amendments to the Hear Act of 2016, but some powerful organisations are concerned the changes go too far

The US president’s criticisms come as the White House begins a review of the Smithsonian’s programmes and exhibitions

The push by Senator Ron Wyden comes amid partisan disputes over the nature and extent of Epstein’s dealings with the rich and powerful

In a letter to the Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch, members of Trump’s administration said they want to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism”

The label had been added to a display at the National Museum of American History about checks on presidential powers in 2021 following Trump's second impeachment

Instead, the museum will draw on Yale University’s endowment for funds to mount an upcoming show of African art

The Art Market Integrity Act proposed by a bipartisan group of US lawmakers would bring US regulation in line with Europe and the UK

The artist says leaders at the National Portrait Gallery suggested removing her painting of a non-binary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty

The State Department says that Unesco membership does not square with its “America-first” outlook

American artist plans to install a multi-media portrait of the president for the 2026 exhibition—but question marks still hang over the application process

Trump’s defunding of the NEA and NEH is changing how state arts commissions get their money

More than a dozen Department of Homeland Security vehicles swarmed the parking lot of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture

The Trump administration’s defunding of the arts has more than symbolic significance

The only four-year college of its kind is on Trump's chopping block, along with countless other Indigenous causes