Brian T. Allen

The NEH gets a second wind, the Kennedy Center will get millions for building rehab, a museum director gets the axe, and will Bette Davis get a statue?

The du Pont estate in Delaware might be old-time but the art is timeless.

It’s got a great art museum, but don’t miss its main library’s Mexican masterpiece.

The Met’s Sargent and Paris show lets us know that the artist’s unique flair stands the test of time.

The museum is small — in a Holocaust landmark building — direct, and packs a punch.

Superbly restored rooms, a show on the art of vodou, and energy and élan at a New England treasure.

The slap of firm government is the only way to right admissions, hiring, antisemitism, and staff bloat.

Yale’s Center for British Art shows 75 works by the British visionary for his big birthday bash.

After its 2014 plan to expand was scuttled, its leadership rethought and made something better.

The redo is total, graceful, and chic . . .

A department supporting literacy, archive digitization, and conservation is set to sink into the briny deep.

But first, a look at some recent history.

Enforcing Trump’s EO on ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History’ will take tough love, force, and deprogramming, and it won’t be pretty.

Two museums put on a blockbuster on the artist’s 80th birthday.

Materials for all seasons at the world’s grandest art fair, plus Cleopatra and a killer ship model.

And why wallop libraries? They teach people to think for themselves.

In Maastricht in the Netherlands, the exhibition hall bursts with art treasures and connoisseurs, checkbooks in hand.

The Horvitz collection of Old Master French drawings and paintings, the best in America, heads to Chicago as a gift.

In the news are smiles in The Hague and tears in Cleveland.

New, platinum gilt Native American sculptures look good, and the new jewelry gallery looks fab.

Gotham-mayhem pics still jolt while Hollywood-glam pics merely amuse.

A first-rate survey of Romanticism’s sublime nature mystic.

Brooklyn Museum’s 500-object show is a gilded albatross.

Plus: Raphael’s Mary Magdalene, earrings fit for a Greek goddess, and a house museum gets its woodwork back.

Angela Davis, the Nap Ministry, drag queen Miss Cracker, and a surreal, new take on American art.

A 1776 Kentucky rifle, a rare Grant Wood painting, and Tiffany’s Poppy Lamp are among the treasures to be purchased.

The visionary Ima Hogg bought the best old American furniture, silver, ceramics, and textiles to inspire good taste in design.

She was one of three women who created the museum, and her gifts of art and money still make a difference after 90 years.

Belle da Costa Greene’s legacy is artistic, but she had a secret.

Plus, a discovery in the Sea of Sicily, an odd pick for director of the Walters in Baltimore, and the Met releases designs for a new contemporary wing.