The Smithsonian has joined other federally funded US organisations in dropping its commitment to promoting diverse hiring practices following an executive order by President Donald Trump which ...

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

A flurry of executive orders U.S. president Donald Trump signed since returning to the White House is shaking up the arts.

A fund set up by STRI staff scientist Annette Aiello intends to provide long-term funding for the preservation and management ...

How's your knowledge of the music of the Chicano movement in the 1960s and 1970s, or of Cajun and Zydeco music from south-west Louisiana?

The National Endowment for the Arts also said it had eliminated a grant program for "underserved communities.” It attributed ...

This week, the Smithsonian Institution closed its diversity office and removed references to DEI initiatives, including a webpage for the diversity and equity commitments of its Smithsonian ...

Jazz musician John Coltrane playing in June 1966 at the Drome Lounge in Detroit. (Leni Sinclair / ) On Dec. 9, 1964, ...

Founded in 1985, City Lore has become an iconic institution in the heart of New York City, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich, living cultural heritage of the city and beyond. Now an ...

In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...

DEI crumbles as corporate America and government reverse course under Trump, sparking legal battles and cultural shifts.