Around 100 workers at the US federal agency were let go on Tuesday, following orders from the Trump administration

The gift, from longtime benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, includes works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Franz Kline, Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston and others

The street where Thomas—the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art—lived for most of her life now bears her name

The museum's directors have issued their first statement since two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead outside the building yesterday evening

The US president continues to strongarm his way into power over American culture

The agency has placed 85% of its employees on administrative leave

Nearly half the art and historic preservation workers at the General Services Administration have been put on leave and are expected to be terminated

The street mural, just steps from the White House, is being removed after a Republican legislator threatened to withhold federal funding for DC unless the area was renamed "Liberty Plaza"

The eerie and uncomfortable new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC comes at a poignant moment for women in the US

The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month

The president is infusing his political agenda into officially nonpartisan national institutions across Washington, DC

The Trump administration's shifting priorities rejects diversity, equity and inclusion in arts organisations

Statues of George Washington and Frederick Douglass will join those of more contemporary heroes like celebrity chef Julia Child and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek

A Trump executive order has led the largely government-funded institutions to roll back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

Trump spoke to donors at the National Building Museum one day after JD Vance hosted supporters at the National Gallery of Art

The agency’s previous leader raised concerns in 2022 about Trump’s handling of documents after his first term in office

Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art

The money will be used for programming related to the semiquincentennial of the US in 2026

It's the highest honour awarded by the US federal government to artists in a wide range of disciplines and art patrons

Walker has led the New York-based Ford Foundation for the past 11 years

The soft drink company's gift will support the planning, designing and building of the museum's future complex in Washington, DC

The campaign, timed to coincide with the semiquincentennial of the United States in 2026, is the most ambitious fundraising undertaking for a cultural organisation on record

The work, on view this month at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Reach Plaza, is “not about replacing or erasing him, about remembering him”, Anadol says

The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave

Brandy, anyone?

The Valentine’s Day protest was carried out by members of the environmental group Declare Emergency

Launching on International Women's Day, 'Becoming Visible' focuses on five historical women whose achievements have been glaringly overlooked

Ranging from painting to installation and beyond, the latest additions to the museum's holdings include contemporary voices as well as legends like Nam June Paik and Robert Irwin

Artist Tiffany Shlain’s sculpture “Dendrofemonology” chronicles women’s achievements stretching back 50,000 years, on the eve of an election in which women’s rights are at stake

The Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art are making plans for continuing operations amid a government shutdown that appears increasingly likely