Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden

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The Trump administration has quietly dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, part of a flurry of executive orders aimed at rolling back the previous administration’s policies on art, culture and historical commemoration.

The move was part of President Trump’s first executive order, issued on Inauguration Day, that reversed more than two dozen “harmful executive orders and actions” taken by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden

The disbanding of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities came amid a flurry of executive orders touching on art, culture and history.
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"The committee, which had an annual budget of roughly $335,000, met six times after resuming operations. Its activities, according to public records, included reviewing a proposal for a campaign to combat the loneliness epidemic identified by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the former surgeon general.
 

Degenerate art: Why Hitler hated modernism​


He had made a speech about it that summer, saying "works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people".

The Nazis claimed that degenerate art was the product of Jews and Bolsheviks, although only six of the 112 artists featured in the exhibition were actually Jewish.

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Degenerate art: Why Hitler hated modernism

In 1937 Germany held an exhibition of "degenerate art" - some of which was rediscovered in a Munich flat this week. What was the point of the show?
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"In July 1937, four years after it came to power, the Nazi party put on two art exhibitions in Munich.

The Great German Art Exhibition was designed to show works that Hitler approved of - depicting statuesque blonde nudes along with idealised soldiers and landscapes.

The second exhibition, just down the road, showed the other side of German art - modern, abstract, non-representational - or as the Nazis saw it, "degenerate".
 
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Hume said:
I see. You need to read a dictionary for the definition of "quiet."
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If I knew about it, and the NYT knew about it, and anyone else on the planet had free access to the information, what was done "quietly"?
 
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