The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal has received the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for a video work created using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s

US National Archives documents from the 18th and 19th centuries will tour museums from Kansas City to Seattle

The location, although not yet official, would legally require the project to undergo a rigorous review process and receive congressional approval

President Trump's latest step in his takeover of the revered performing arts venue involved a hasty change of title

A federal judge has rejected attempt by National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt president’s pet construction project

Areas of the National Gallery of Art and parts of the Smithsonian were open to the public for the first time in more than a month on Friday

The White House plans to install new Commission of Fine Arts members who “are more aligned with President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies”

One group called the sudden demolition “a collective loss” while another expressed concern the $300m ballroom that will replace the East Wing “will overwhelm the White House itself”

The 21 museums, 14 research and education complexes, and one zoo overseen by the Smithsonian closed on Sunday

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

The organiser of the exhibition cancelled the event following the delivery driver’s death

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

A new anonymous, satirical art piece aimed at the US President has found its way into the White House's orbit

Around 100 workers at the US federal agency were let go on Tuesday, following orders from the Trump administration

The gift, from longtime benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, includes works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Franz Kline, Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston and others

The street where Thomas—the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art—lived for most of her life now bears her name

The museum's directors have issued their first statement since two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead outside the building yesterday evening

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

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

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 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"

The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment for women in the US

The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art