Janay Kingsberry

The White House on Thursday released an article outlining Smithsonian exhibitions and materials it considers “woke” or anti-American.

President Donald Trump threatened to unleash his attorneys on the Smithsonian, saying the institution was fixated on “how bad slavery was.”

The Trump administration has called for changes across the Smithsonian Institution. On Thursday, its head, Lonnie G. Bunch III, joined the president for lunch.

Trump signed an executive order expanding his campaign against modernism, overhauling design principles that have guided government construction since the 1960s.

In an interview, former National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet spoke about her plans for the Milwaukee Art Museum, the pressures facing arts institutions and why she decided to leave the Smithsonian.

Amy Sherald takes canceled Smithsonian show to Baltimore Museum of Art

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III told staff in a letter that the institution will set up an internal team to review exhibitions at eight of its museums.

The National Endowment for the Humanities granted $10.4 million to Tikvah’s Jewish Civilization Project.

Guitarist Yasmin Williams, a critic of Trump and the center’s leadership, said local Log Cabin Republicans organized an effort to harass and intimidate her.

The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.