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Trump Executive Order Targets ‘Anti-American’ Content at Smithsonian

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View of the Smithsonian American Art Museum building in Washington, D.C., 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on Thursday directing the Smithsonian, a federal consortium of cultural and research institutions, to eliminate “divisive” and “anti-American” content from its exhibitions and restore “monuments, memorials, statues, markers” that have been removed …

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MoMA Names New Director, Indigenous Shrine Leaves New York After 120 Years, and More: Morning Links for March 31, 2025

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Christophe Cherix. Photo Peter Ross/©2021 Museum of Modern Art The Headlines MOMA HAS A NEW DIRECTOR. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a new director Christophe Cherix, ARTnews  reported on Friday. Cherix will succeed Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA since 1995, and he will start his new job this September. He has served as chief curator …

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Could Hong Kong Art Week’s Big Kick Off Parties Give a Hint at the Market’s Direction?

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Jas Lin performs in KICKOUT, a work exploring queer bodily autonomy in collaboration with artists IV Chan, and Alexmalism, at M+ on Monday. Photo Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices/Courtesy of M+   Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in our special Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter for Art Basel Hong Kong. Sign up here to receive it every …

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New York’s Natural History Museum Returns Shrine to First Nations Community

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Exterior view of The American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation on May 10, 2023. Corbis via Getty Images New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has returned a shrine known as the Whalers’ Washing House to Mowachaht, a First Nations people in Canada. The Whalers’ Washing House …

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Influential Painter Suzanne Jackson to Get a Traveling Retrospective

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At center: Suzanne Jackson, deepest ocean, what we do not know, we might see?, 2021. ©Suzanne Jackson/Courtesy Ortuzar, New York/Photo Patrick Jameson/Tanoto Family Collection Suzanne Jackson, an influential painter whose work was a star of the 2024 Whitney Biennial, will get a traveling retrospective that kicks off this fall. The show, titled “Suzanne Jackson: What …

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RISD Shutters Show of Pro-Palestine, Anti-Colonial Art

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An installation image of art in the student-organized show shuttered by campus. Courtesy RISD Students for Justice in Palestine Students at the Rhode Island School of Design have accused administration of censorship after an exhibition of dissident art, some of which explicitly criticized Israel’s occupation of Palestine, was removed from public view by campus security …

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UK Art Businesses Fined for Money Laundering Compliance Failures

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The British Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Photo Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Nearly 50 UK art businesses have landed on a newly published list of Art Market Participants (AMPs) that failed to comply with money laundering regulations, according to a disclosure by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) last week. The fines …

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