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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 …

Метки : искусствосвобода словаполитиканацизмэстонияпутин

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

Conservative Florida College Will Commission Charlie Kirk Statue

09/17/2025

On Tuesday, the New College of Florida announced plans to commission a statue of Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist and organizer who was shot dead last week in Utah. “Today, we announced that we will commission a statue of Charlie …

Метки : чарли киркновый колледж флоридыскульптурасвобода словаконсерватизмполитика

Lee Ufan Painting at Center of Bribery Investigation in Korea

09/13/2025

Last month, Kim Keon-hee, wife of South Korea’s impeached and jailed former president Yoon Suk-yeol, was arrested on charges of bribery, stock manipulation, and election interference. On Thursday, the special prosecutor leading the case said a painting by Lee Ufan …

Метки : южная кореякоррупцияискусствополитикаскандалрасследование

Nicholas Galanin Pulls Out of Smithsonian Event, Claiming Censorship

09/12/2025

Artist Nicholas Galanin said he pulled out of a symposium related to a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition, claiming that he was asked not to record the event or share footage of it on social media. That show, “The Shape …

Метки : искусствониколас галанинсмитсоновский музейсимпозиумвыставкаполитика

Smithsonian to Conduct Review, But Asserts 'Independence' from Trump

09/04/2025

After weeks of speculation about how the Smithsonian Institution would respond to the Trump administration’s executive order calling for a review of the museum network’s programming, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has finally weighed in. In a letter to staff …

Метки : искусствополитиканезависимостьтрампсмитсоновский институтdei