The United States has formally notified UNESCO of its intention to withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural arm by December 2026, reigniting a decade-long dispute over the organisation’s political direction….
24 July 2025
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9 November 2020
The United States has quit UNESCO over what they call an ‘anti-Israel bias.’ The US is pulling out of the UN’s cultural organisation accusing the agency, known for designating world heritage sites such as Syria’s Palmyra and Stonehenge of a continued bias at the organisation.”
12 October 2017
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the US which was under the threat of being axed by Donald Trump in his first Federal Government budget has been spared by Congress. Trump had announced his intentions to defund both the NEA and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
2 May 2017
The Trump administration’s intention to cut the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in its federal budget plan has been leaked.
16 March 2017
The Turner Prize-winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor has reworked Joseph Beuys’ seminal work, I Like America and America Likes Me… Read More
1 February 2017
