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White House Temporarily Removes Petition Tool
The White House is temporarily removing a petition tool from its website after 11 months of silence, promising to respond to public concerns next year. The Trump administration said the platform, used extensively by critics and less frequently by allies, will be removed at midnight Tuesday and return in late January as a new site. A White House official said...
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Jacqueline Kennedy's Painting, Watch to Be Sold at Auction
A watercolor by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is being auctioned along with a Cartier watch she wore for years.
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Federal Budget Deal Would Spare Arts Agencies
The new federal spending bill would spare — and even slightly increase — funding for three arts-related agencies that President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. The agreement announced Monday calls for the CPB’s budget to remain the same, at $445 million. Spending for...
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Agency Follows a Uniquely American Way of Funding Arts
When the National Endowment for the Arts was established in 1965, organizers had different models to choose from. They could have looked to the French Ministry of Culture, a cabinet-level institution committed to maintaining France’s cultural heritage. Or they could have copied the generous and government-directed support favored by some Scandinavian countries, or even the state-controlled art of their Cold...
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‘Art Endangers Fascist Leaders': Activists Project Images on SF Federal Building to Oppose Trump's Proposed Budget Cuts
A group of art advocates on Thursday shone a bright light on President Donald Trump’s plans to cut funding to art programs.
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Queen Latifah, Usher, James Taylor to Help Obamas Celebrate Arts
Queen Latifah, James Taylor, Smokey Robinson and Trombone Shorty are among the performing artists who will help celebrate the arts at the White House on Wednesday.