As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the U.S. Feel a Chill

Some museums are changing or canceling exhibits, especially those that involve artworks that engage with gender, sexuality and race.

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Will Museums Fight Back Against Trump?

The president’s attacks on the Smithsonian Institution and other museums have become an effort to redefine why such places exist.

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Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history.

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Young People of Color Flocked to This Show. It Made Them Feel Seen.

The exhibition “Beloved Suburbs” drew more than 150,000 visitors to France’s Museum of the History of Immigration. “We really recognize ourselves in the exhibition,” one said.

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Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar

MAGA would fill museums with self-glorifying kitsch, the aesthetic lingua franca of all authoritarians.

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$5,000-Per-Plate Dinner Tests Museum Ban on Political Fund-Raisers

Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.

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Tourist ‘Is in Trouble’ After Stones Taken From Pompeii, Police Say

A Scottish man is under investigation for aggravated theft, police officials said, after visiting the ancient Italian site.

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Trump Administration Plan to Oversee Smithsonian Exhibits Draws Criticism From Historians

The Trump administration’s plan to, in effect, audit the content of Smithsonian museums drew criticism from groups that represent scholars and promote free speech.

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White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions

The Trump administration is giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”

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The South Korean Collector Who Fell for Posters From Communist Poland

Oh Hwangtaek has amassed one of the largest collections of Polish posters outside Poland. He shares his unlikely passion at his own museum in Seoul.

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