(28 Mar 2025)
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Washington – 28 March 2025
1. Wide of the Smithsonian American Art Museum exterior
2. Mid of signage for the Smithsonian American Art Museum exterior
3. Wide of entrance to The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture exhibition
4. Placard from the exhibition that reads, (English): Classical Sculpture and the Myth of the White Idea
5. Pan of exhibition, statues
6. Sculpture shaped like an American flag
7. Sculpture of two girls wearing dresses with American flag detailing
8. Pan of sculptures
9. Sculptures on wall in exhibition
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
Trump says there’s been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
One of the exhibitions pointed out in the executive order is currently running at the Smithsonian American Art Museum named The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture.
The museum’s website describes the exhibition as an examination of “the role of sculpture in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United States.”
The exhibition consists of 82 sculptures created between 1972 and 2023.
Trump has signed an executive order putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo.
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