LIFE, FAMILY and FUN

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My day began with the headline “Today is the Smithsonian’s deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House”* Former president Lyndon B. Johnson said, “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage” Some art I find highly offensive, some I don’t understand at all, and I have traveled around the world and experienced art that made me weep with joy. I spent a good portion of my life growing up in museums, my father a Museum director and art historian and my mother a lifelong supporter of artistic expression, freedom and the power of art to make a positive difference in our world. Both of my parents survived and experienced first hand the ravages of horrible events, WWII and the Great Depression. I fully believe their faith in art, the freedom and transformative power of expression, was born out of what they endured and a testament to their strength and that of so many others. Our current administration’s call to hand over art that it deems promotes an “improper ideology” is a direct copy out of the handbook of Nazi’s who destroyed and sold off art that they deemed and exhibited as “degenerate” in the “Entartete Kunst”. Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14253 is a poorly veiled attempt to erase and rewrite history. It is pathetic and it will fail.

*Today is the Smithsonian’s deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House NPR online 1/13/2026 heard on Morning addition 5:00am Correspondent Anastasia Tsioulcas