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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

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   -   Dec 24, 2025 Records show NEA approved Trump-aligned grants as community awards were zeroed
Mary Anne Carter, confirmed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, pictured in an official portrait released by the agency.

Internal documents show how grant terminations, zero-dollar payouts, and new Trump-aligned awards unfolded simultaneously inside the agency.

Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 20, 2025 Rome raises museum costs for visitors, expands free access for residents
Rome raises museum costs for visitors, expands free access for residents

A resident-first shift reshapes access to Rome’s civic museums.

New York’s political leadership backs Met Museum workers ahead of union vote
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 27, 2025 New York’s political leadership backs Met Museum workers ahead of union vote

The open letter, signed by Zohran Mamdani, calls the union vote a test of New York’s commitment to collective bargaining in its cultural institutions.

by Adam Schrader
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Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 27, 2025 New York’s political leadership backs Met Museum workers ahead of union vote
New York’s political leadership backs Met Museum workers ahead of union vote

The open letter, signed by Zohran Mamdani, calls the union vote a test of New York’s commitment to collective bargaining in its cultural institutions.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 24, 2025 Records show NEA approved Trump-aligned grants as community awards were zeroed
Mary Anne Carter, confirmed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, pictured in an official portrait released by the agency.

Internal documents show how grant terminations, zero-dollar payouts, and new Trump-aligned awards unfolded simultaneously inside the agency.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 20, 2025 Rome raises museum costs for visitors, expands free access for residents
Rome raises museum costs for visitors, expands free access for residents

A resident-first shift reshapes access to Rome’s civic museums.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 16, 2025 Trump administration urges judge to reject bid to halt White House ballroom
Trump administration urges judge to reject bid to halt White House ballroom

Government lawyers argue the East Wing no longer exists and say a judge cannot halt construction already underway.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 16, 2025 France returns looted Tarbosaurus skeleton, hundreds of fossils to Mongolia
Unmounted Tarbosaurus bataar foot bones stored in a transport crate during a French customs restitution ceremony.

Customs records show how separate fossil seizures were later linked through a single investigation.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 14, 2025 VMFA repatriates 41 ancient reliefs to Turkey after looting investigation
Ancient polychrome terracotta relief fragment with geometric pattern, looted from a Phrygian temple in Turkey and repatriated by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Prosecutors and the museum outlined seemingly different triggers for the restitution.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 14, 2025 Aga Khan Trust for Culture denies reported Syria museum project
Historic Saraya building in Jableh, Syria, showing an interior courtyard with arches above and an exterior nighttime view of the stone structure below.

The denial follows a government-linked claim about restoring a historic building.

by Adam Schrader
Government and Cultural Heritage   -   Dec 10, 2025 Russia opens ‘Battlefield’ museum in occupied Mariupol
Russia opens ‘Battlefield’ museum in occupied Mariupol

Sergei Ladochkin, a member of the Russian Civic Chamber, called it a “symbol of the city's liberation from neo-Nazis."

by Adam Schrader
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