US politics

Mentions of ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ removed from US government website dedicated to Stonewall National Monument

Other pages on the National Park Service site related to diversity, equity and inclusion also appear affected

Trump fires US National Archivist and purges board of the Kennedy Center

The president is infusing his political agenda into officially nonpartisan national institutions across Washington, DC

Covering up displays about women and people of colour was ‘a mistake’, Maryland's National Cryptologic Museum says

A photograph of exhibits at the museum covered with brown paper, seemingly in response to President Trump’s anti-DEI order, caused an uproar on social media

NEA shuts down arts grant for ‘underserved communities’ amid flurry of Trump executive orders

The Trump administration's shifting priorities rejects diversity, equity and inclusion in arts organisations

White House art collection adds Carmen Herrera painting

The acquisition, announced by former first lady Jill Biden, makes Herrera the first Latin American woman to have work in the White House collection

Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

The US president dissolved the committee in an executive order reversing Joe Biden’s own executive order reviving it

President Trump revives plans for sculpture park dedicated to ‘American heroes’

Statues of George Washington and Frederick Douglass will join those of more contemporary heroes like celebrity chef Julia Child and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek

Comment | Censorship in the US is rearing its ugly head again—but the art world isn't taking it lying down

As anxieties grow about a new era of cultural repression, artists and institutions are finding ways to come together and push back

Smithsonian Institution and US National Gallery of Art close diversity offices following President Trump's executive order

A Trump executive order has led the largely government-funded institutions to roll back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life

Architects denounce Trump's call for ‘traditional and classical’ architecture

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has criticised an executive order signed by the new president, claiming his plans could harm local communities

How a controversial bust of Winston Churchill made its way back to the Oval Office

President Donald Trump has returned the statue—one of an identical pair—to his office, but it has not been a simple journey

Donald Trump begins second term as US president following fundraising galas at Washington museums

Trump spoke to donors at the National Building Museum one day after JD Vance hosted supporters at the National Gallery of Art

Elizabeth Catlett bust of Martin Luther King Jr goes on view for first time in 40 years

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently acquired the work, which is being exhibited at the de Young Museum ahead of Martin Luther King Jr Day

Does Trump’s return spell boom or bust for the NFT art market?

Experts are sceptical that the NFT market will ever rebound to its 2021 levels, but the crypto asset sector may still manage to take over the art world one way or the other

Trump claims he will replace the head of the US National Archives

The agency’s previous leader raised concerns in 2022 about Trump’s handling of documents after his first term in office

New report chronicles challenges in making visible the sites of historic US protests

The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s latest "Landslide" report marks a shift from the annual initiative’s usual focus on threatened landscapes

Artist withdraws from Miami-area exhibition over anti-BDS language in contract

“It was disheartening to experience this level of institutional complacency and complicity,” says the artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez

President Biden establishes national monument acknowledging history of forced assimilation at Native American boarding schools

The monument, at the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, will ensure nobody forgets one of the “most horrific chapters in American history”, Biden said

Dina Danish’s tapestries at Art Basel Miami Beach depict current events

The artist’s textile works depict important events from recent years, including the assassination attempt on the US President-elect

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Comment | Why it's important to find hope for—and through—the arts after the US election

The divisions within American society cannot be ignored, but let’s focus on where the country is united, and how the cultural sector can foster that unity

Jamie Bennett and Suzy Delvalle

Bill that would allow Trump to designate art non-profits as 'terrorist organisations' advances to US Senate

The controversial bill has raised worries among Democrats who fear that Trump will exploit it for personal retribution

New Los Angeles art space focuses on the experiences of women

The artist Kathryn Andrews began to develop the idea that has become the Judith Center during the 2016 US presidential election

‘A lot of damage can be done’: the art world reacts to Donald Trump’s victory in US election

While some are confident that certain democratic institutions and safeguards will hold, many expressed fear, shock and dismay

Former museum curator accuses city in Arizona of censorship in lawsuit

The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition

Carrie Mae Weems lends images for Kamala Harris ad

A few photographs from the artist’s famed “Kitchen Table Series” appear in a new video promoting the vice president’s campaign

US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath — podcast

What is at stake for the US cultural sector as the nation chooses its next president? Plus, a tour of 14th-century Sienese masterpieces and a conversation with Goliath about her ongoing video series Mango Blossoms

Shepard Fairey murals of Kamala Harris go up in battleground states as early voting begins in US presidential election

One of the murals, in Durham, North Carolina, brought together Fairey, cultural organiser Wyatt Closs, gallery owner Linda Shropshire and the local community

An exhibition on reproductive health raises urgent questions—and the spectre of self-censorship

The touring exhibition “Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency” features works that unflinchingly address infringements on bodily autonomy; its run has been cut short after a university gallery withdrew from its leg of the tour