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ARTnews.com
A report commissioned by the Netherlands’ Foundation for the Royal Private Collections examining about 1,000 objects found that a small number of items in the Dutch royal family’s holdings—such as a...
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The Trump administration installed 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C., including an equestrian monument to Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Caesar Rodney that had been...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 21 May, the US House of Representatives voted 216 to 204 to strike down a bill to build the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC, after last-minute...
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The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced 312 new acquisitions in 2025 during its 50th anniversary year, expanding strengths in photography, mixed media, and contemporary...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic roundup titled “Trump’s Clash of Civilizations,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara frames the issue around recent threats by the US president to annihilate Iran’s “whole civilization,”...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported on 10 April 2026 that Melissa Chiu, 54, has been appointed the next director of the Guggenheim in New York, following a quiet search led by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC since 2014, will leave to become director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her final day at the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, will reopen its 1.4-acre sculpture garden later this year with eight newly acquired works installed on the National Mall....
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Artist Pat Steir, known for large-scale abstract “Waterfall” paintings made by pouring paint down upright canvases from a ladder or cherry picker, died in Manhattan of natural causes at age 87. Her...
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Eight preservation organizations sued the Trump administration over plans to close Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center for two years for renovations, arguing the project threatens a major modernist...
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The provided excerpt for ARTnews’s article “Volunteer Group Documents Smithsonian Wall Text as Trump Administration Presses Cultural Review” does not include the article’s readable body text, so...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The White House has pressed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to expand its presentation of President Donald Trump by creating a dedicated section with multiple images,...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reports that Donald Trump wants the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to commission a new portrait. The proposal would add to the institution’s tradition of commissioning and displaying...
Hyperallergic
A solo exhibition by painter Amy Sherald set a new visitor record at the Baltimore Museum of Art, according to Hyperallergic. The article reports that attendance for Sherald’s show surpassed previous...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
Artnet News
Artnet News reports that Donald Trump is pushing for a dedicated display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., centered on pro-Trump “fan art.” The article frames the...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reported that the White House has floated the idea of expanding the display devoted to Donald Trump at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The proposal concerns how Trump would be...
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to India after determining they were looted. The repatriation is part of ongoing efforts by museums to address gaps in...