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February 12.   Marina Dunbar: Kennedy Center board votes to elect Trump as new chair: President accepts ‘great honor’ after terminating Biden appointees and installing loyalist as interim leader.

February 22.   Adrian Horton: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook: US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda.

March 6.   Michael Paulson: Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order: The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”

March 25.   David Smith: ‘This is injustice’: inside Trump’s attack on funding for LGBTQ+ arts.

April 3.   Elizabeth Blair: Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated.

April 4.   Elizabeth Blair: National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave.

April 4.   Maya Pontone: Judge Denies Motion to Block Trump’s Anti-Trans Arts Funding Bar: The ruling means the National Endowment for the Arts can continue to impose Trump’s “gender ideology” criteria on its grant applications.