The contract between an Elmhurst art-supply company and General Services Administration, the landlord in federal buildings and offices throughout the country, appeared to be a good deal for both si… ...

As US President Donald Trump's administration continues its drastic downsizing of the federal workforce, the future of more than 26,000 government-owned art objects hangs in the balance.

¶ The Government should increase aid to schools and colleges for art education. Free slides, color reproductions and movies of Government collections ought to be distributed for educational use.

In the 1990s, the Office of the Inspector General — which fights waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government — told the GSA to keep a record of the artworks, which are government property.

Earlier this month, staffers at the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees, among other functions, the federal government’s vast real estate portfolio and a massive ...

The future of a vast collection of public artwork is in doubt as the Trump administration plans to fire workers who preserve and maintain more than 26,000 pieces owned by the U.S. government ...

The concerns are twofold. The G.S.A. collection is roughly the same size as that of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. But where collection management staff at museums typically track ...