This art exhibition is ‘divisive’ or ‘eye-opening’ — it depends who you ask

Image caption: A ceremony at the Pioneer Woman Statue at Ponca City, Oklahoma., photograph, September 5, 1941. Image credit: Oklahoma Historical Society. Article by Elizabeth Blair. NPR: All Things Considered – April 2, 2025.

On any given day, there are hundreds of different exhibitions on view at the Smithsonian’s many museums. But a recent White House executive order singled out one. The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum shows 82 artworks by 70 artists, spanning some three centuries from the late 1700s to the present day. […]

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