The resignation of #Smithsonian gallery director #KimSajet after her attempted firing by #Trump might not be the biggest news of this Friday the 13th of Fascism, but it still sucks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/kim-sajet-resigns-national-portrait-gallery-director
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Kim Sajet, de directeur van de National Portrait Gallery in Washington, stapt op. Dat meldt onder meer The New York Times op basis van een verklaring van Sajet in een interne e-mail van het Smithsonian, dat toezicht houdt op het museum. Eind mei deelde president Donald Trump dat hij Sajet...
Kim Sajet, de directeur van de National Portrait Gallery in Washington, stapt op. Dat meldt onder meer The New York Times op basis van een verklaring van Sajet in een interne e-mail van het Smithsonian, dat toezicht houdt op het museum. Eind mei deelde president Donald Trump dat hij Sajet wilde ontslaan, omdat hij haar om haar progressieve diversiteitsbeleid niet geschikt vond voor de functie.
The Smithsonian faces an existential crisis. The world is watching. – The Washington Post
Column by Philip Kennicot
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington in April. (Tierney L. Cross / For The Washington Post)Trump’s effort to oust the director of the National Portrait Gallery could give him absolute control of Smithsonian content.
June 4, 2025 at 12:08 p.m. EDT, Yesterday at 12:08 p.m. EDT, 7 min
When the National Portrait Gallery was created by an act of Congress in 1962, the authorizing legislation defined portraiture as “painted or sculptured likenesses.” And when it referred to the future directors of that museum, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, it was with exclusively male pronouns. “His appointment and salary,” the text read, would be fixed by the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents.
Fourteen years later, Congress amended the original legislation to widen the definition of portraiture to include photographs and “reproductions thereof made by any means or processes.” As the NPG built its collection and expanded its mission, it was clear that there were many Americans who would never have their images painted or sculpted — mainly Americans who weren’t White, male and wealthy — yet were nonetheless essential to the story of America, its history and culture.
Kim Sajet, who became the first woman to lead the NPG in 2013, was hired to continue what that amending legislation did in 1976. She expanded the definition of portraiture and widened the scope of people considered worthy of representation in the nation’s portrait gallery. Visitors now encounter painted portraits, photographs, ink-jet prints, sculpture, videos, assemblage pieces, paper cutouts and videos. Women, people of color and those who identify as LGBT are more regularly seen in the museum’s galleries.
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"Ook een onderschrift bij het portret van Trump zou hebben meegespeeld in het besluit haar te ontslaan. In dat onderschrift werd de nadruk gelegd op het feit dat er twee afzettingsprocedures tegen hem dienden."
https://nos.nl/artikel/2569385-trump-ontslaat-nederlandse-baas-national-portrait-gallery-om-diversiteit
#Trump #ontslagen #DEI #Smithsonian #KimSajet
Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery – The Washington Post
Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery
It was unclear if Trump can dismiss Smithsonian leaders. The termination of Kim Sajet marks the president’s first action against an institution he has vowed to purge of “anti-American ideology.”
The National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum building in Washington D.C. on April 1, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross / For The Washington Post)May 30, 2025 at 2:55 p.m. EDT, 51 minutes ago, 4 min
By Janay Kingsberry and Maura Judkis
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, whom he called “highly partisan.” The dismissal marks the first action Trump has taken against the Smithsonian Institution since an executive order he signed earlier this year that promised to eliminate “divisive narratives” and “anti-American ideology” from the museum and research body, which is partially funded by the federal government.
“Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. “She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position. Her replacement will be named shortly.”
It is unclear if the president has authority to dismiss Sajet. The Smithsonian’s programming is not under the purview of the executive branch, and personnel decisions for senior-level Smithsonian museum positions are made by Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III. Neither the museum, the institution nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment.
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