The National Humanities Medal, 2014. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons On June 10, the Trump administration laid off an estimated 100 employees at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of a “reduction in force,” according to USA Today. Since then, about two-thirds of the organization’s workers have lost their jobs. Fewer than 60 employees …
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Bill Pallot was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of €200,000. Photo Foc Kan/WireImage An antiques expert and a cabinet maker were recently found guilty for forging and selling nine imitations of historic 18th-century armchairs they claimed belonged to members of French royalty like Marie Antoinette. The judgment for the case applied …
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L’Enfant Promenade in Washington, D.C., 2011. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A federal judge will not stop the Trump administration from continuing to slash the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as determined in a Friday ruling, according to the American Library Association (ALA). The temporary restraining order was originally issued just days ahead of a …
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Untitled box-like art, sometimes called Judd cubes, by Minimalist artist Donald Judd. Getty Images The Texas Historical Commission (THC), a group that oversees preserved sites in the state, announced that a series of buildings repurposed by minimalist artist Donald Judd and overseen by two artist foundations, has been added to a national register that gives …
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive for a performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center June 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo Win McNamee/Getty Images While attending a fundraiser at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump was booed, reported the Washington Post. …
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Interior rendering of California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA) labs. Rendering by Laplace The campus of the former San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) will now play host to a privately funded nonprofit arts center, the California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA). A studio program there will bring in 30 emerging artists each year. Backed by …
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Blue House, in Mexico City, the museum dedicated to artist Frida Kahlo on January 17, 2019. Getty Images A former director of museums devoted to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City has accused the trust that oversees those two institutions of years of mismanagement. In a statement to the Art Newspaper, which first …
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Günther Uecker, 2005. Photo Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images Günther Uecker, an iconic artist of the postwar era who redefined abstraction not with paint but with nails hammed into his canvases, died on Tuesday at 95. His passing was announced by his New York gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, which did not specify a cause of …
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The Victor Higgins painting Aspens (c. 1932) was stolen from the Harwood Museum of Art in 1985. Courtesy UNM Harwood Museum of Art The FBI recently recovered two paintings stolen four decades ago from the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. Victor Higgins’s oil painting Aspens (c. 1932) and Joseph Henry …
Gas flares (R-at back) at the Woodside operated North West Shelf Venture with rock (L-foreground) are shown on the Burrup Peninsula in the north of Western Australia on June 17, 2008. Piles of red rock which typify the Burrup area are the site for perhaps one million pieces of Aboriginal rock engravings several thousands of …
