In an Instagram post last Sunday, Oscar-ensemble actress Julian Moore wrote that the 2007 children’s book “Freeclephase Strawberry” of the 2007 children under review and the decision to remove and remove it ” “Was, which was different from children and schools to remove children and children from schools and schools. Civil Defense Employees.
It tells the story of a red-headed young man who gives a hub to his freckles, but finally learns to love him as well as the differences of others. As Guardian, The Defense Department broadcast a memo sting that all library books “Gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology related ability” were seen, and it was said that a “said” the number of the above books “said” further review ” Was being organized for. Variety, equity and inclusion programs away from the rift of Trump administration.
“This is a book that I have written to remind me for my children and other children to remind them that we all struggle, but are united by our humanity and our community” Wrote in his social media post. Is. “I thought that I would see it in a country where freedom speech and expression is a constitutional right.
Many people in the world of art and humanities are afraid that the atmosphere of censorship is imminent – and it is far from the only concern.
‘Attack on free expression’
In January, President Trump gave an executive order, which ended diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs to all federal agencies. The move was felt in the art scene, namely in several dozen major museums, which receive Federal Funding, including Smithsonian and National Gallery of Arts. The National Gallery of Art has already announced that it would close its office to its office.
“The Dai attack of Trump Administration and this perspective which is the sensorship of activities in Annie touch in the race. And this is not a clear guideline of this that it means what it means when trying to reconsider what it means. . Complaint of the past, “Maxwell Anderson, a former Metropolitan Museum of Art, Curator and Director of the Whitney Museum. “So there is a child of free swimming attack on free expression.”
Anderson, who has now deepened Foundation Sols, supports black artists in South America, says that he and other similarity-operated organizations are closer to the new administration’s man. “Because it seems that now it is getting illegal to talk about the history of the race in the United States. Such eradication reminds of fascist movements in the ’30s, so in America, it is in America, It is shocking. If we all have been selected, then it would be a destruction of the culture, but we did not know how deep it would be cut.
Federal support for art gets ax
During his first term in the office, Trump dissolved the President’s Committee on Art and Humanities, a historical non-Pakistani leaf founded by Republican President Ronald Reagan “that creativity, diversity and democracy are internal bound, And that is that art and humanities can be a powerful force for social changes to give advice on cultural policy. Have brought professionals together.
In 2017, President Trump banned the group after 17 members resigned to his response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlotsville, Virginia. Joe Biden restored the group in 2022 citing the importance of art and humanities. Then in January, Trump once again dissolved the group into an acting order, aimed at bringing back the policies of previous administration on art and culture and historical memory.
Already, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal agency, which is the largest fund of art and art education in communities across the country, cut its FY26 Challenge America Grants, which has federal finance to small art organizations Millions of nutrition are given, which increase outreach. In the US to underline serving communities. The organization announced that money and manpower would now go to the anniversary of the declaration of freedom – which is one of the President’s planned projects, with the construction of a new national sculpture garden.
Kennedy Center Techover
Nevertheless, the almost irony is that President Trump recently came to the top of one of the largest performing art institutions in the US: Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
The President acquired a Satyan of the cultural venture, which – specific – is part of the US government. It hosts more than 2,000 performances in artistic disciplines a year and is home to the National Sympathy Orchestra and National Opera.
President Trump fired several board members, with hand -selected colleagues, including the other woman Usha Vance, her advisor Dan Skweino and her Chief of Staff Susie Wils. They, in turn, were elected a chair person.
President Trump said that he wants the institution to go away from “Woque Culture” on social media that “no more drag shows, or other anti -meraikan propaganda – would be the best.”
Many artists have canceled the upcoming performance, opposing the acquisition as well as the change in the eye-breaking program at the same time, but is believed to have nothing. “Finn,” a children’s music, about a young shark that feels that he is more related to the other shark, which was canceled. The National Symphony Orchestra Concert was titled “A Peacock in Pigeon”, which was placed as “love, diversity celebration, and lively spirit of the LGBTQ+ community”, which was postponed indefinitely after rule on the board. Was.
Anderson explains that, unlike the view of the performance art, the museum has specificly planned its exhibitions plan for the year. “So the puzzle will be that museums across the country have a lot of exhibitions on the calendar, which worked through black artists or works, who were ideologically rich and tested and controversial in the eyes of the new administration which are still on books. ” Canceling them, they say, a challenge may be more.
Meanwhile, Anderson hopes that the leaders of the arts institution will dare to stand up for what is happening, despite many challenges. After all, he states: “Self-concentration is a dangerous force in some ways that we are under pressure under today.”
Edited by Tanya Oat
