Preservation Group Appeals Dismantling of SF Brutalist Fountain The Vaillancourt Fountain in Embarcadero Plaza could be removed as soon as February.

The Vaillancourt Fountain in Embarcadero Plaza could be removed as soon as February. hyperallergic.com/preservation...

Image Attesting to Horrors of Slavery Reportedly Ordered Removed by Trump The famous 19th-century photograph of a formerly enslaved man is reproduced at the Fort Pulaski National Monument, a Civil War battle site in Georgia.

Trump officials reportedly ordered the removal of “The Scourged Back” (1863), a famous image of a formerly enslaved man, from a national monument in Georgia where the US Army toppled a Confederate garrison during the Civil War.

Two Artists Withdraw From Smithsonian Symposium Nicholas Galanin and Margarita Cabrero said the decision to make the event private is a form of silencing participants amid Trump’s attacks on the institution.

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US Agencies Say They Have “No Records” of Tourist Flagged for JD Vance Meme A lawyer for the Norwegian tourist who was denied entry at the US border told Hyperallergic that ICE and CBP’s response "raises concern about how his case was handled.”

ICE and CBP told the attorney for Mads Mikkelsen, the Norwegian tourist who was denied entry to the US during a search that uncovered a JD Vance meme earlier this summer, that it had no records related to his allegedly 18-hour detention at Newark airport. hyperallergic.com/1038623/us-a...

A.I.R. Gallery Seeks Community’s Help After Losing $30K NEA Grant The cuts jeopardize the feminist collective’s long-running residency program for women and nonbinary artists.

“It’s disheartening that NEA funding has been abruptly cut without prior notice, leaving A.I.R. scrambling to find alternative ways to support this vital program” —Brooklyn-based artist and current A.I.R fellow Stephanie Santana

The Artist Reviving a Native Hawaiian Clothmaking Tradition Lehuauakea, one of the few kapa practitioners under the age of 30 working in the art form today, is the recipient of a Walker Youngbird Foundation grant for emerging Native American artists.

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National Endowment for the Arts Cuts Millions in Grants As Trump threatens to eliminate the agency altogether, award recipients are scrambling to recoup lost funding.

The NEA will now focus on advancing “skilled trade jobs,” “AI competency,” “support [for] the military and veterans,” and the “economic development of Asian American communities,” according to grant termination emails I reviewed. hyperallergic.com/1010245/nati...

Columbia Apologized to Mahmoud Khalil in May 2024 for One-Day Suspension Marco Rubio justified Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest using the same protest charges Columbia brought against him that were dismissed a day later.

read this report!! by @isafarfan.bsky.social regarding Mahmoud Khalil's imprisonment by immigration officials and its connections to his suspension by Columbia University last spring theintercept.com/2025/03/19/c...

ACLU Sues NEA for Enforcing Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Mandate The suit argues that the federal art funding agency's new grant requirement violates the First Amendment in what may be the first major legal challenge to the controversial policy changes.

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The Artist Printing Emblems of Immigrant Resistance Nicolás González-Medina's woodblock designs amplify the fight for immigrant rights amid Trump's sweeping crackdown on undocumented people.

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