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The fight to keep space shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill contained a provision to snatch the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and relocate ...
Artist Amy Sherald cancels her Smithsonian show over censorship concerns
Sherald said she backed out amid discussions of removing a painting that shows a transgender woman dressed as the Statue of ...
Artist Who Created Michelle Obama's Famed Portrait Cancels Smithsonian Show, Claiming Threat Of Censorship
Amy Sherald said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing her piece, Trans Forming Liberty, a painting that ...
Acclaimed artist pulls Smithsonian show over ‘censorship’ concerns
Renowned artist Amy Sherald pulled her September show, “American Sublime,” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in ...
U.S. Postal Service to celebrate 250th anniversary amid Trump threats to privatize
The agency's semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., ...
The Bipartisan Push for a Women’s History Museum
In related news this week, the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday unanimously advanced the bipartisan World War ...
Zoo New England names Smithsonian deputy director as new CEO
The former deputy director of the Smithsonian National Zoo brings conservation expertise as she prepares to lead Boston's ...
GOP Sen. Jim Banks introduces bill banning wokeness, ‘divisive narratives’ at Smithsonian museums: ‘Stop letting activists rewrite our past’
A new bill would outlaw the Smithsonian Institution from peddling wokeness and “divisive narratives,” codifying an executive ...