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Musk says his gestures at Trump inauguration event weren't Nazi salutes

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a top aide to President Trump, drew and quickly dismissed a raft of condemnation from Democratic lawmakers, left-wing politicians abroad and others across the internet after twice making what to some looked like a Nazi salute from an inauguration stage. Musk — who has endorsed antisemitic remarks and […]

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Trump inauguration draws 24.6 million viewers, a steep drop from 2021 and 2017

The TV viewership for President Trump’s historic second inauguration fell far short of the audience for his first ceremony in 2017 and former President Biden’s 2021 event. Nielsen data showed Trump’s festivities averaged 24.6 million viewers across 15 networks from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern, a decline of 27% from four years ago. The

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Artists Wanted to Make a Pro-Palestine Statement. The Brooklyn Museum Said No.

Visitors to the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday, January 18, may have met some of the artists included in one of the institution’s current exhibitions, but not under normal circumstances. At the entrance, several of them were handing out flyers with the message “Stop the Genocide” spelled in the museum’s signature font with interlocking Os, framed

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Column: How Donald Trump's second inauguration outdid the cruelty and excesses of his first

I really appreciated Monday’s unexpected call for unity in the Capitol rotunda, where MAGA insurrectionists mounted a deadly attack on Congress four years ago. Unfortunately, it did not come from the petulant, vindictive President Trump, who sat on a dais crowded with Trump family members, former presidents and first ladies, and members of the new

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Creative Capital Awards $2.45M to 55 Artists

The Creative Capital Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual grant awards, amounting to $2.45 million allotted across 55 artists and collectives for 49 individual projects. Each grant provides $50,000 of unrestricted project funding alongside multi-year professional development and opportunities for community building. Founded in 1999, Creative Capital deliberately taps “risk-taking, underinvested artists” who

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Former Museum Director Accused of Basquiat Forgery Scheme Dies at 59

Aaron De Groft, who was the director of the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) when the institution came under fire for exhibiting fake Basquiats, died on Saturday, January 18 after battling a brief illness, according to an obituary published yesterday. He was 59 years old. De Groft was ousted from his role at the helm

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How Will Meta’s New Content Policy Affect Artists?

Jarid Blue’s “Light Bath Chromatic – Magenta Constellation (Red.01)” (2023) from the Light Bath series, is one artwork that has been downranked for violating Instagram’s Recommendation Guidelines. (image courtesy the artist) Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent five minutes explaining to over 3 billion users that everything was about to change. In ending

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Not-to-Miss Documentaries at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival 

On January 20, after native rights activist Leonard Peltier had spent nearly 50 years in prison, President Biden granted him clemency. The news came just a week before a new film about the case, Jesse Short Bull and David France’s Free Leonard Peltier, was scheduled to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. This is an

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California, other states sue to block Trump executive order on birthright citizenship

California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco sued the federal government Tuesday over President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship via executive order — calling it an unconstitutional directive that flies in the face of long-standing legal precedent. “I have one message for President Trump: I’ll see you in court,”

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