Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”
The display at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, DC, featured portraits of nearly 120 people, including children killed in mass school shootings.
Among his many legacies, the late pontiff left behind a trove of musings on contemporary art, the role of museums, and even the pitfalls of the art market.
Money from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which just terminated hundreds of grants for organizations, will help build the bizarre sculpture garden, slated to honor figures from Julia Child to Justice Scalia.
IMLS’s Trump-appointed director Keith Sonderling cut an estimated over 1,000 grants as the administration continues to decimate arts and culture funding.
Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.