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Director of National Portrait Gallery resigns after Trump’s effort to fire her

Kim Sajet’s departure comes after the Smithsonian Institute rebuffed the president’s attempt to fire her over DEI

The director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, has resigned just two weeks …

13 days ago

We in the cultural sector must stand up to Trump’s attacks – if not now, when? | Gus Casely-Hayford

My former colleagues at the Smithsonian in Washington DC face unprecedented pressure. I urge them to defend their principles

  • Gus Casely-Hayford is director of London’s V&A East

In one of his recent Tru…

17 days ago

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‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’

As the US president hangs a fist-pumping portrait of himself in the White House and seeks to purge museums of ‘improper ideology’, our writer finds chilling parallels at a new show about the Nazis ri…

74 days ago

Despite Livia Tossici-Bolt's conviction, the US is not finished with making abortion a UK culture war issue | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

We should all be worried that the rightwing organisation Alliance Defending Freedom has been increasing its activities in this country

I couldn’t sleep the other night, because I made the fatal mistak…

77 days ago

Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view | Kellie Carter Jackson

The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’

Last week, Donald Trump issued another executive order, this one aimed directly at the Smi…

80 days ago

‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

Roberto Lugo and other artists of color are now feeling heat from Trump’s attack on diversity and efforts to rewrite truth of the US’s past

Artists, academics and politicians have shared their outrage…

What is the Smithsonian Institution and why is it important?

A Trump executive order aims to uproot ‘anti-American ideology’ from the US museum and research complex

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institut…

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