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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III announced he will retire after seven years leading the institution, having become its first African American and first historian to hold the...
ARTnews.com
The Trump administration warned the Smithsonian Institution on August 28 that it could lose discretionary support from executive agencies, accusing it of potential violations of federal...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published a never-before-released interview in which scholar and curator Julia Bryan-Wilson speaks with performance artist Simone Forti (born 1935 in Italy), who died in Los Angeles in...
Hyperallergic
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will present “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” opening September 26, featuring 26 Islamic artworks on loan from the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Seven Smithsonian buildings in Washington, DC, closed abruptly on 6 August after a mechanical failure disrupted chilled water needed for cooling systems and humidity controls. The affected sites...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Musée du Louvre will lend 26 works from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, for the exhibition From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic...
Hyperallergic
A House subcommittee appropriations bill approved in June outlines the Trump administration’s preliminary Fiscal Year 2027 budget request for the Smithsonian Institution at $961.3 million, about 11%...
ARTnews.com
The Trump administration proposed a fiscal year 2027 federal budget of $961.3 million for the Smithsonian Institution, an approximately 11% cut from the $1.08 billion Congress provided for fiscal...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic roundup introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, the publication highlights Paddy Johnson’s Art Problems column on coping with “toxic people” in the art world and Ed Simon’s...
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The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) condemned the Trump administration’s attacks on the Smithsonian Institution after the White House ordered signage outside the National Museum of American...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On July 24, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the National Park Service (NPS) director, and the president’s domestic policy aide to install...
Hyperallergic
President Donald Trump ordered the Department of the Interior on Friday, July 24, to install content-warning signage outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History along National Park...
ARTnews.com
President Donald Trump ordered warning signs installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert visitors to what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” in the...
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Artist Refik Anadol presented Smithsonian Dreams, an immersive AI-driven light and sound projection mapped onto the façade of the Smithsonian’s red sandstone Castle during a pause in a renovation...
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History director Anthea Hartig, who has led the museum since 2019, faced pointed questioning at a two-hour congressional hearing in which Representative Tim...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic weekly roundup, senior editor Valentina Di Liscia highlighted recent coverage ranging from Michael Glover’s review of an Elizabeth I exhibition to Rhea Nayyar’s piece on Surrealist...
ARTnews.com
On Saturday, July 4, the Trump Administration released a 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of being captured by “a radical, activist ideology.”...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A 162-page report released on July 4 by the White House Domestic Policy Council criticizes the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and argues it should present a more “proudly...
Hyperallergic
The White House published a 162-page report on July 4 titled “Saving America’s Story” accusing the Smithsonian Institution of “extreme political activism” and “anti-White activism,” escalating...
Artnet News
A 162-page White House Domestic Policy Council report titled “Saving America’s Story,” published online on July 4, accused the Smithsonian Institution of promoting “anti-white” ideology, focusing...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, part of the Smithsonian Institution, announced it will loan more than 200 modern and contemporary works to partner institutions in all 50 US states and...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic Fourth of July weekend roundup highlights critic Aruna D’Souza’s essay on the Statue of Liberty as a recurring tool for political expression in art, citing artists including Faith...
ARTnews.com
Media artist Refik Anadol will present “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale A.I.-driven projection on the facade of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
In June, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum launched its first augmented reality project, “Unhidden Heroines,” on Washington, DC’s National Mall, running through 31 December as part of...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” offering strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reported that the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” advising artists on how to respond when...
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Artist, activist, author, and philanthropist Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at age 72, his family announced, with no location, date, or cause given, according to reporting cited from the New York...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Refik Anadol has opened Dataland in Downtown Los Angeles, described as the world’s first AI art museum, occupying 25,000 square feet in Frank Gehry’s Grand LA development across from Walt Disney...
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The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum launched an augmented reality initiative called Unhidden Heroines beginning June 18, allowing users with smartphones or computers to view five virtual...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Dataland, billed as “the world’s first museum of AI Arts,” co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç and opening to the public in Los Angeles on June 20. Located...
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,...
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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...
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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...