Politics / Books & the Arts / Our art critic visits the Smithsonian American Art Museum to get a closer look at the Trump ...

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

President Donald Trump fired the National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet for being a “strong supporter” of diversity, ...

The FOIA request targets several interconnected themes: Communications regarding President Trump's removal of Kim Sajet, which occurred in May of 2025, followed by the Board of Regents' silence.

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Sajet (22-cv-2809 CRC), a First Amendment case stemming from the blocking of artist Julian Raven by former Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet on X (formerly Twitter), Judge ...

Kim Sajet is stepping down as director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington after 12 years. The decision follows public attacks by Donald Trump, who accused her of supporting programs deemed ...

Sajet's departure was announced to her colleagues in an email from Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, who credited the director with reshaping the Portrait Gallery during her 12-year tenure, with ...

Two weeks after President Donald Trump claimed he’d fired her because she’s a “highly partisan person,” the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director, Kim Sajet, announced she was stepping down ...