‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

Roberto Lugo and other artists of color are now feeling heat from Trump's attack on diversity and efforts to rewrite truth of the US's past

Artists, academics and politicians have shared their outrage in reaction to the Trump administration's latest executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum network.

Late on Thursday, Trump announced that his administration had ordered a large reshaping of the Smithsonian in an attempt to eliminate what he described as improper, divisive or anti-American ideology".