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Amid wild reports that President Donald Trump wants to “kill the [National Endowment for the Arts, and] cut loose PBS and NPR,” Hollywood actors attended their own inaugural ball Friday and… More

Just ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration was the story that the President will act quickly to approve budget-cutting plans that would outsource public radio and television financing while eliminating all… More

Watching today’s inauguration of Donald Trump, I protest as a writer and staunch defender of free speech: Partnering with a transatlanic team, I published Creativity Is Risky: Free Speech… More

 Editor's Note: Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he was poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress.… More

In 2014, at the request of an art adviser, the artist Richard Prince agreed to select an image from Ivanka Trump’s Instagram feed and turn it into an art… More

By Mike Sonksen As the American presidency transitions from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, there are countless questions emerging. I have heard many of them first hand over the last… More

Supporters of the arts and humanities on Thursday sounded unanimous alarm over an article in The Hill reporting that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National… More

Hours before his inauguration tomorrow, Donald Trump appears ready to approve budget-cutting plans that would outsource public radio and television financing while killing altogether federal support of the arts… More