ARTnews review links arts defunding to US civic fracture

ARTnews in New York published 'How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration' on 7 October 2026. The Art in America review centres on 'What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era', about the United States bicentennial, the 200th anniversary, described as the country's most ambitious cultural project. It argues withdrawn arts support weakened shared civic life.