Trump’s Smithsonian Executive Order, Explained: What Is the Smithsonian Institution, and What Will Happen to It?

Since retaking office in January, President Donald Trump has issued a flood of executive orders taking up topics such as the importation of Chinese goods, Venezuelan immigrants, union protections, and electoral politics. But one executive order has the art world particularly worried, and that one addresses the Smithsonian Institution, a museum network that counts some of the most widely visited institutions in the nation.The order, issued in March, was intended to fight what a fact sheet called