Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Defends Institution Against White House Criticism, Artforum, 10 July 2026

In an email to his staff, American educator, historian, and Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III pushed back against a recent White House Domestic Policy Council report which accused the Smithsonian National Museum of American History of veering towards a mission rooted in “extreme political activism.”

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