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Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide
Concerns are rising over the removal of certain artifacts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture due to a review prompted by President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “improper ideology.” At least 32 artifacts, including significant items related to slavery and Civil Rights, have been taken down from the museum, raising discussions…
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Grand art exhibit ‘Lunation’ to soon eclipse
Lunation: 29 Days of Darkness & Light group printmaking show on display until May 30th at 4 Pillars Gallery in The Grand Center for Arts and Culture downtown New Ulm. NEW ULM – The public is invited to attend the Grad’s latest art exhibits, “Lunation: 29 Days of Darkness & Light,” before it closed. The…
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Keith McNally Memoir Shares Regrets and Triumphs
I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir, by Keith McNally (Gallery Books, 303 pp., $29.99) On a recent Friday evening, I met a friend at the Lucy Mercer Bar, the upstairs lounge of Minetta Tavern, which opened last year in Washington, D.C.’s Union Market neighborhood. The lounge, named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s reported mistress, is resplendent…
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Getty Villa sets reopening date after fire: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
The Getty Villa Museum will reopen to the public on a limited basis beginning June 27 after a nearly six-month closure forced by the devastating Palisades fire. On the night of Jan. 7, reports swirled that the wind-driven conflagration had reached the outskirts of the Villa. A Getty team stayed through the night, putting out…
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Erie Arts & Culture, TREC Each Receive $30K in State Grants for Local Environmental Education Programs
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‘Treasures’ to open in New Roads, ‘Animals in Art’ entries sought, ‘Pink Triange’ at Arts Council
Visitors peruse the art at a recent ‘Treasures of Pointe Coupee’ reception at the Julien Poydras Museum, 500 W. Main St., New Roads. PROVIDED PHOTO BY GALE ROY ‘Treasures’ to open The “Treasures of Pointe Coupee” exhibit will run May 30-June 1 and again June 6-8 at the Poydras Center, 500 W. Main St., New…
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Fairport Harbor Arts and Culture Alliance to host outdoor summer concerts
To kick off its 2025 concert season, the alliance is presenting Folk and Country Fest. The event takes place from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 31 at the gazebo in Memorial Park, 301 Third St. Originally Published: May 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT
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Fairport Harbor Arts and Culture Alliance to host outdoor summer concerts
To kick off its 2025 concert season, the alliance is presenting Folk and Country Fest. The event takes place from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 31 at the gazebo in Memorial Park, 301 Third St. Originally Published: May 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT
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Chicago’s former cultural head is pushing back hard on Trump’s arts attacks
Chicago’s former cultural commissioner, who now runs the nation’s leading arts advocacy organization, says she remains “strangely optimistic” even as President Donald Trump’s administration moves to zero out the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts, claw back grants from cultural organizations across the country and commandeer programming at the Kennedy Center. Erin Harkey…
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My 5 Favorite Works of Art in Mexico City
Whenever I’m rattling through the many museums of Chapultepec Park, or jogging past the modernist towers along the boulevards of Reforma, I’m struck again by how many different eras Mexico City allows you to visit in one day. The city is the largest metropolis in North America, and has been stratified with seven centuries of…