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Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy

Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.

Not bowing down: New York’s Public Theater (pictured) along with the NY Theatre Workshop, New Haven’s Long Wharf, and Portland’s Center Stage issued a joint statement promising to “continue to uplift the work of transgender, non-binary, and queer artists.”(Education Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Donald Trump isn’t exactly known for his wide-ranging interest in the arts. His aesthetic tastes tend toward gilded clutter, heroic statuary, old pop tunes, and an overall Read more…

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