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Minneapolis, museums close in protest against ICE

Minneapolis, museums close in protest against ICE

Minneapolis, museums close in solidarity with community protesting ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or federal agency that has established what is described as a climate of terror and violence in the Twin Cities territory, the nickname b...
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US, student eats artwork to protest artificial intelligence

US, student eats artwork to protest artificial intelligence

Eating a work of art in protest. This is what happened in Fairbanks, Alaska, where a University of Alaska Fairbanks student, Graham Granger, was arrested last Jan. 13 while he was intent on "ripping artwork off the walls and eating it during an alleg...
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White House threatens Smithsonian: no funding if it does not conform to Trump's lines

White House threatens Smithsonian: no funding if it does not conform to Trump's lines

The White House could suspend funding to the Smithsonian, the largest museum complex in the United States of America, if the institution decides not to abide by the strict rules that were imposed last summer by theTrump administration. That, in a nut...
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Philadelphia Art Museum director fired after controversial rebranding campaign

Philadelphia Art Museum director fired after controversial rebranding campaign

Shake-up at the top of one of Philadelphia's most emblematic cultural institutions: the Philadelphia Art Museum 's Board of Trustees has in fact voted to dismiss Director Alexandra "Sasha" Suda, effective immediately. The decision was made on Tuesday...
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National Gallery in Washington closes indefinitely due to shutdown

National Gallery in Washington closes indefinitely due to shutdown

Those who visit the website of the National Gallery of Art in Washington these hours will find the entry "Cancelled" on all the events and exhibitions scheduled for these days: the museum has in fact closed indefinitely due to the shutdown of the U.S...
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Why what Trump is doing to American museums is serious and undemocratic

Why what Trump is doing to American museums is serious and undemocratic

For the past eight years there has existed in the United States a group of political scientists of all orientations, about 500 in all, that has been tightly monitoring the resilience of all democratic practices in the country to assess their resilien...
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US, Philadelphia museum sues Trump administration over cuts to grants already awarded

US, Philadelphia museum sues Trump administration over cuts to grants already awarded

A Philadelphia museum , the Woodmere Art Museum, is suing the Trump administration because theInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) the federal agency that funds the country's museum programs, illegally revoked a $750,000 grant that had bee...
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USA, a monument torn down during Black Lives Matter protests will be put back in place

USA, a monument torn down during Black Lives Matter protests will be put back in place

The National Park Service (NPS), a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing national parks and monuments, has announced the start of restoration and subsequent reinstallation of the bronze statue of Albert Pike, an American general and author who...
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