Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has affirmed in a memo to staff that the institution will “remain steadfast in our mission to bring history, science, education, research and the arts to all Americans”

Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding

As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm

All but the most elite art schools risk losing crucial funding through grants and federally supported student financial aid programmes

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe

Vice President JD Vance will oversee the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” and deny funding to exhibitions that “degrade shared American values”

In a letter to the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ new, Trump-appointed acting director, the agency's advisory board emphasised that its activities are governed by Congress

Keith Sonderling, the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, plans to steer the agency to “promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country”

Nearly half the art and historic preservation workers at the General Services Administration have been put on leave and are expected to be terminated

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is listed alongside six other ‘unnecessary’ organisations

The list of buildings, briefly posted on the General Services Administration website, included 443 properties, many with cultural and historic significance

The street mural, just steps from the White House, is being removed after a Republican legislator threatened to withhold federal funding for DC unless the area was renamed "Liberty Plaza"

Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the federal agency, was nominated by Joe Biden and held the role for just over three years

The San Antonio Missions National Historic Park's headquarters are central to the management of five 18th-century missions in and around the city

The de Young Museum, Legion of Honor and Asian Art Museum may let go of 20% of their security personnel

Tariffs of 20% on imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada are causing havoc for artists, who rely on imported raw materials and overseas fabricators

The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment for women in the US

The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month

Fears of growth in illicit art trade amid US dumping kleptocracy teams

The New York-based artist, who marries elements of graffiti and Mexico’s modernist murals, is rewarded with a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles

Other pages on the National Park Service site related to diversity, equity and inclusion also appear affected

The president is infusing his political agenda into officially nonpartisan national institutions across Washington, DC

A photograph of exhibits at the museum covered with brown paper, seemingly in response to President Trump’s anti-DEI order, caused an uproar on social media

The Trump administration's shifting priorities rejects diversity, equity and inclusion in arts organisations

The acquisition, announced by former first lady Jill Biden, makes Herrera the first Latin American woman to have work in the White House collection

The US president dissolved the committee in an executive order reversing Joe Biden’s own executive order reviving it

Statues of George Washington and Frederick Douglass will join those of more contemporary heroes like celebrity chef Julia Child and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek

As anxieties grow about a new era of cultural repression, artists and institutions are finding ways to come together and push back

A Trump executive order has led the largely government-funded institutions to roll back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life