Biden Seeks to Replace Several Trump Appointees on Arts Commission
Several members of the Commission of Fine Arts were asked to step down, including its chairman, who promoted classical architecture as the preferred style for federal buildings.
A battle over whether there should be a preferred national style of architecture helped propel a generally low-key commission into the spotlight.Credit.Samuel Corum for The New York Times
May 25, 2021Updated 4:09 p.m. ET
Four of the seven members of the federal Commission of Fine Arts, a generally low-key, earnest design advisory group that became embroiled in battles over architectural style during the Trump era, have been told by the Biden administration to resign or face termination, according to the commission’s chairman.
Elie Wiesel s bust will be in the National Cathedral
May 7, 2021
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Washington s National Cathedral, known for its role during presidential inaugurations and other days of national import, is honoring Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Laureate and Holocaust memoirist with a bust, making him the first Jew to be so honored.
Or maybe not the first, depending on where you sit. I would say he is the first 20th-century Jewish person, the cathedral s dean, Rev. Randy Hollerith, said when asked how Wiesel came to be the first Jew to earn a sculpted depiction at the cathedral.
Asked if he was referring to Jesus and some of the apostles, who also make.
WASHINGTON â Washington National Cathedral, the massive Episcopal house of worship that prides itself on being an unfinished work-in-progress whose stones and stained glass tell the story of the 20th and 21st centuries, is unveiling its newest addition: a carving of iconic author, human rights campaigner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
The carving completes a quartet of heads of prominent figures sprouting from the four corners of an alcove known as the Human Rights Porch, joining Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a young Episcopal theologian and civil rights crusader who was shot to death in Alabama in 1965, giving his life to protect a 17-year-old Black woman.
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