Government and Cultural Heritage

Coverage of how local to global governments influence the arts and cultural heritage through funding, policy, and regulation. Includes legislation, cultural diplomacy, institutional restitution, and public transparency in arts administration.

Government and Cultural Heritage

Government and Cultural Heritage - Oct 07, 2026 Appeals judges press NEA on 'gender ideology' penalty for arts grants

A government lawyer conceded in court that a project's promotion of "gender ideology" can only count against it.

Government and Cultural Heritage - Oct 04, 2026 36 antiquities returned to Syria, including 13 seized from the Met

The return includes a 1,000-pound Palmyra funerary relief and 14 mosaics.

Government and Cultural Heritage - Oct 10, 2026 U.S. grant pays to restore Hamilton House on Nevis, add Constance Baker Motley exhibit

This year’s round of the State Department fund behind the $245,000 award favored sites tied to notable Americans.

by Adam Schrader

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Government and Cultural Heritage - Oct 10, 2026 U.S. grant pays to restore Hamilton House on Nevis, add Constance Baker Motley exhibit

This year’s round of the State Department fund behind the $245,000 award favored sites tied to notable Americans.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Oct 07, 2026 Appeals judges press NEA on 'gender ideology' penalty for arts grants

A government lawyer conceded in court that a project's promotion of "gender ideology" can only count against it.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Oct 04, 2026 36 antiquities returned to Syria, including 13 seized from the Met

The return includes a 1,000-pound Palmyra funerary relief and 14 mosaics.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Sep 22, 2026 NASA administrator questioned Goddard library review, emails show

Two weeks earlier, a Goddard official learned the GSA needed no manifest for the books NASA was giving up.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Sep 21, 2026 Heritage group asks UNESCO to intervene over road work in Iran’s Lut Desert

Iranian environmental reporting attributes the construction to Mahan Air and says the halted project resumed during this year's war.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Sep 20, 2026 Artists to roll anti-ICE art and voting calls through New York on LED trucks

The campaign, part of the national Fall of Freedom, adds an online exhibition ahead of the November midterms.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Sep 18, 2026 British Museum releases lobbying letters over ‘Palestine,’ withholds its own records

The museum confirmed it holds no records of the "audience testing" it cited to justify the changes.

by Adam Schrader

Government and Cultural Heritage - Sep 17, 2026 Craft travel founder says middlemen leave artisans a fraction of each sale

Kirsten Dickerson is converting Artist & Nomad to a nonprofit and touring a documentary that will fund grants for the artisans her trips visit.

by Adam Schrader