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A congressional hearing reveals the Heritage Foundation’s role in Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian. Meanwhile, Massachusetts state senators seek to shed the Commonwealth’s killjoy reputation with a suite of amendments to the $325 million economic development bill designed to support cultural spaces, artists, and, yes, bars. Among the fun coalition’s goals: repealing the 1984 happy hour ban.

A new White House report targeting the Smithsonian makes clear that museums are only one piece of a much broader cultural policy agenda. Plus: the Creative Space Act reaches a critical moment on Beacon Hill, New York expands arts funding, and labor organizers strike at the Guggenheim.