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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.

The state and city spent months gearing up for what has been promised to be a major tourism boom, but the arts have been left out of the plans at every step. Plus: the state’s highest court strikes down a rent control ballot question, Boston’s FY27 budget heads toward the finish line, Somerville secures affordable artist studios, and Congress threatens the nation’s only dedicated federal arts education grant.