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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.

April 12.   Jonathan Jones: ‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’.

April 19.   Tobi Raji, Samantha Chery: DOGE team meets with National Gallery of Art leaders The National Gallery is a public-private institution that receives government funding for most of its operations..

May 3.   Samantha Chery: Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled: Trump’s proposed budget follows his attempts to reshape the nation’s arts landscape and defund institutions.

May 4.   Sophia Nguyen & Herb Scribner: National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters.

May 30.   Zachary Small: Trump Says He Fired Director of National Portrait Gallery, Citing D.E.I.: Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian museum for more than 12 years, has tried to bring in more contemporary artists.

June 3.   Javier C. Hernández: After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Fall Sharply.