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08/04/2025

Two Norfolk art galleries closed recently, and art centers are cutting programs, seeing fewer sales as people tighten their budgets, among layoffs and cuts in arts funding.

07/25/2025

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Painter Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition, titled “American Sublime,” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after the museum considered removing her painting of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty. The show was slated to open in September.⁠
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“I entered into this collaboration in good faith, believing that the institution shared a commitment to presenting work that reflects the full, complex truth of American life,” the artist wrote to Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian, who runs the Portrait Gallery. “Unfortunately, it has become clear that the conditions no longer support the integrity of the work as conceived.’’⁠
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Photo Ron Amstutz. Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

07/25/2025

https://www.whro.org/arts-culture/2025-07-24/local-art-galleries-closing-seeing-fewer-sales-as-patrons-cut-spending

07/25/2025

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Two Norfolk art galleries closed recently, and art centers are cutting programs, seeing fewer sales as people tighten their budgets, among layoffs and cuts in arts funding.

07/25/2025

https://www.whro.org/arts-culture/2025-07-24/local-art-galleries-closing-seeing-fewer-sales-as-patrons-cut-spending

Two Norfolk art galleries closed recently, and art centers are cutting programs, seeing fewer sales as people tighten their budgets, among layoffs and cuts in arts funding.