I canceled my show at the Smithsonian over censorship concerns. I won’t be the last.
When a government starts deciding which stories museums can tell, it is not protecting history. It is rewriting it. When the Trump White House announced its plans to “review” the Smithsonian (which includes 21 museums, research centers, an arboretum and a zoo), that statement, to some, may have sounded bureaucratic…
bubmagAugust 24, 2025