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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

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

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

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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Trump withdraws US from UNESCO (again): 'Not in US national interest'

The United States has formally announced its intention to withdraw fromUNESCO, the United Nations agency dedicated to education, science and culture. The organization's director-general, Audrey Azoulay, received the official communication from Washin...
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Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson will create new sculptures for the Metropolitan Museum's historic facade

It will be artist Jeffrey Gibson (Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1972), a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, who will create new sculptures for the niches of the New York Metropolitan Museum 's Fifth Avenue facade...
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US, Trump administration closes the National Museum of the Environment: the reason? "It costs too much"

The National Environmental Museum and Education Center, a museum dedicated to U.S. environmental history located inside theEnvironmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Its closure was decreed by Lee Zeldin, the federal ag...
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Donated to the Art Institute of Chicago one of the most prestigious private collections of French art in the U.S.

TheArt Institute of Chicago will be enriched by the most prestigious private collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the great French masters of the 16th to 19th centuries in the United States, thanks to the extraordinary donation of Jeff...
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