On March 6, 2025, the ACLU; the ACLU of Rhode Island; Lynette Labinger, cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Rhode Island; and David Cole filed a federal lawsuit against the National Endowment for the ...

A new policy for the National Endowment for the Arts to review grant applications to see if they comply with President Trump’s “gender ideology” order violates the Constitution, the court said. By ...

Two weeks ago, a Rhode Island judge ruled that a policy instituted by the National Endowment for the Arts violated the First Amendment. The NEA policy, which determines the amount of federal funding ...

The National Endowment for the Arts took back $30,000 the agency awarded to the North Portland art gallery Oregon Contemporary to fund its Artists’ Biennial, a long-running biannual exhibition that ...

The Administration’s arts strategy parrots tactics deployed in other arenas: a cascade of executive orders (EOs), grant rescissions, terminations, and threats designed to “flood the zone,” disorient ...

President Donald Trump arrives for an event at the Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. October is National Arts n Humanities Month, a time normally reserved for celebrating the ...

Yesterday morning, the Trump administration released its proposed federal budget for financial year 2018, making good on the US president’s threats to cut all funding to the National Endowments for ...

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...

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The cost-of-living crisis means working-class people often don’t have the spare time or funding to consume and participate in the arts. Museum budgets have faced pressure since the late 1980s, when ...