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The dissolution of the President’s Arts and Humanities Committee came here in the midst of a wave of decrees regarding art, culture and history.
By Jennifer Schuessler and Julia Halperin
The Trump administration quietly dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and Human Sciences, which is part of a wave of executive orders aimed at reversing past administration’s policies on art, culture and ancient commemoration.
This resolution component of President Trump’s first executive order, released on inauguration day, which reversed more than two dozen “harmful executive orders and actions” slammed into former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
This order has drawn attention for its reversal of diversity, equity and inclusion systems in the federal government, which has left federal museums and uncertain cultural organizations how to respond. The dissolution of the Arts Committee, made without comments from the White House, not noticed. At some point, its online page retired.
Since its creation through President Ronald Reagan in 1982, the committee has brought in combinations of eminent artists, tough allies of the president, academics, and museum professionals to advise cultural policy. Members included singer Frank Sinatra; The cellist yo-yo ma; Terry Semel, former president of Warner Bros. ; And Robert Menschel, a former spouse of Goldman Sachs.
In the 1990s, he asked President Bill Clinton to repair investment for public arts teaching, to ask that secondary academics have in a foreign language and make greater tax incentives for cultural philanthropy. Under President Barack Obama, the Committee has developed Turnarur Arts, an experimental initiative to stimulate artistic schooling in the least effective schools in the country.
The committee was not a supporter. But during the first Trump administration, it has inadvertently become a spectacle of the mutual antagonism between Mr. Trump and what has frightened as out-of-touch cultural elites.
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