"The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable..."

"... on Thursday, one week after announcing that eight of the institution’s museums must submit their current wall text and future exhibition plans for a comprehensive review. The list borrows heavily from a recent article in The Federalist that objected to portrayals at several museums. It argued that the National Museum of American History promoted homosexuality by hanging a pride flag; overemphasized Benjamin Franklin’s relationship to slavery in its programming; and supported open borders by depicting migrants watching fireworks 'through an opening in the U.S.-Mexico border wall.'...:

I'm reading "White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable/The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration" (NYT).

Here's that official list put out by The White House.

Most striking item on the list: "The National Museum of African Art displayed an exhibit on 'works of speculative fiction that bring to life an immersive, feminist and sacred aquatopia inspired by the legend of Drexciya,' an 'underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women who had been thrown overboard or jumped into the ocean during the Middle Passage.'"

Notably out of context item on the list: "An American History Museum exhibit features a depiction of the Statue of Liberty 'holding a tomato in her right hand instead of a torch, and a basket of tomatoes in her left hand instead of a tablet.'" There's an image of it, and it looks like really bad art — amateurish junk. But here's the Smithsonian's description of the object and why it is in the collection:

Farmworkers from Immokalee, Florida carried this papier-mache statue in a two-week “March for Dignity, Dialogue, and a Fair Wage,” in the spring of 2000. Tomato pickers and their supporters traveled 234 miles by foot from Ft. Myers to Orlando. They hoped to be heard by the powerful growers who employed them and by a larger public concerned with human rights and the dignity of labor. Largely composed of Mexican, Haitian, Mayan, and Guatemalan immigrants, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), brought attention to unsafe working conditions, poverty-level wages, and other abuses. The figure of a tomato-picking statue of liberty, carried along the highways on a truck flatbed—and at times on workers’ shoulders--dramatized the workers’ claims to the American promise of opportunity and a decent life.... Constructed on a base made of materials from a hardware store, the statue uses a large swath of painter’s cloth to create the draped gown of the iconic original. She holds an actual bucket used in the tomato harvest, filled with papier-mache tomatoes with felt leaves attached. Green paint evokes the patina of the statue in New York harbor; brown-toned skin and dark hair reflect the identities of the majority of CIW members.