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Historic Preservation Groups Request Pause on Trump's Ballroom

10/24/2025

As demolition began on the East Wing of the historic White House earlier this week to make way for President Donald Trump’s new ballroom, the National Trust for Historic Preservation have asked the Trump administration to pause construction until the …

Метки : архитектураисторическое наследиебелый домтрампполитикакультурные нормы

Trump Demolishes the White House's East Wing for His Ballroom

10/21/2025

A portion of the East Wing of the White House has been demolished to build President Donald Trump’s ballroom. The demolition on the historic national building began on Monday, October 20, despite previous claims from the president saying that the …

Метки : белый домдональд трампархитектураистория.политикаизменения

The Louvre Jewel Robbery Is a Symbol of Macron For French Politicians

10/21/2025

The brazen robbery at the Louvre Museum on Sunday—during which thieves escaped with jewels once belonging to Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie—has quickly become a political flashpoint in France, with figures across the spectrum using it to attack President Emmanuel …

Метки : лувркражаполитикаэммануэль макронправое крылофранция

East Tennessee State University Cancels Exhibition of Political Art

10/18/2025

East Tennessee State University has cancelled an annual juried exhibition of politically-themed art at the school’s Reece Museum. The show, “The Fletcher Exhibit of Social and Politically Engaged Art,” was first held in 2013 in honor of ETSU art student …

Метки : искусствополитикастипендиявыставкасвобода словасоциальные темы

Smithsonian Closes Museums Amid Government Shutdown

10/12/2025

The Smithsonian Institution, a Washington, D.C.–based network for museums that has repeatedly been attacked by the Trump administration, suffered yet one more blow this weekend as a continuing government shutdown forced it close for the foreseeable future. It is not …

Метки : смитсоновский институтправительственный штурм#культураискусствополитикатрамп

Edi Rama, Albanian Prime Minister, Represented by Société

10/09/2025

Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania for more than a decade, is hardly an art world novice. He studied at the Academy of Arts in his native Tirana, and was a professor there as well. He was a working artist …

Метки : эди рамаискусствогалерея sociétéсовременное искусствополитикавыставка

National Gallery of Art Closes as a Result of Government Shutdown

10/05/2025

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will close as a result of the government shutdown, the museum said on Saturday. “Beginning tomorrow, October 5, the National Gallery will be temporarily closed and all programs will be canceled until …

Метки : национальная галереяшатдаунискусствовыставкаполитикасша

Louisiana State Museums System at Risk of Accreditation Loss

10/02/2025

Ten institutions that make up the Louisiana State Museums system are at risk of losing accreditation with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), according to a report in The Art Newspaper. The system was last accredited in 2011, and a …

Метки : музеиаккредитацияполитика#культураистория.луизиана

Menachem Begin's Grandson Is Showing His Art in Israel

09/26/2025

Avinadav Begin, the grandson of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, is an artist, and he’s having his show right now in Tel Aviv at Sheetrit & Wolf Contemporary Art Gallery. At that gallery, he is currently showing his latest …

Метки : искусствовыставкаполитикаизраильсовременные художникиактивизм

Estonian Museum Director Sentenced to Russian Prison

09/25/2025

Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, the director of the Narva Museum in Estonia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia on charges related to hanging banners that label Russian president Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.” One banner fuses Putin’s face with …

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Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Removed from DC’s National Mall

09/25/2025

Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Removed from DC’s National Mall US Park Police early this morning assisted the National Park Service in removing a sculpture depicting President Donald Trump cavorting hand-in-hand with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein from the …

Метки : трампэпштейнскульптурасвобода словаполитикаискусство

Artists Respond to Removal of Statue of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

09/24/2025

After going viral online this week, a statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein disappeared from view on Wednesday morning. The circumstances of the removal remain uncertain. The anonymous artists behind the artwork, titled The Secret …

Метки : трампэпштейнискусствосвобода словаполитикаскульптура

Bizarre Trump Bitcoin Statue Appears in Washington, D.C.

09/20/2025

The artwork Washington, D.C., has surely been waiting for has arrived: a statue of President Donald Trump holding up a Bitcoin. The 12-foot-tall statue is of largely unknown origin. It arrived suddenly, mysteriously, outside the Capitol Building. When viewed from …

Метки : искусствотрампкриптовалютаскульптуравашингтонполитика

FAU Art History Professor Suspended Due to Charlie Kirk Comments

09/19/2025

Karen Leader, an associate professor of art history at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), was placed on administrative leave due to comments made about Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist shot dead in Utah last week. On Saturday, FAU President Adam Hasner …

Метки : искусствополитикаобразованиесвобода словаскандалфлорида