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President Joe Biden launched an unprecedented purge of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts Monday, demanding the resignation of four of the seven members. ....
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. ....
Trump made an arts commission all White, all male and almost entirely mediocre Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post Feb. 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Commission of Fine Arts, c. 1915. Clockwise from left: Charles Moore, Peirce Anderson, Edwin Blashfield, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Daniel Chester French, Colonel William Harts , Thomas Hastings and Cass Gilbert.Commission of Fine Arts A photograph taken a few years after the 1910 founding of the Commission of Fine Arts shows its seven members and the commission secretary at a moment when the capital of the United States was being radically redesigned as a grand, monumental city. All of the members are White men and all are dressed in suits and ties. Among them is Daniel Chester French, the sculptor who created the giant statue of the 16th president that commands the inner sanctum of the Lincoln Memorial; Cass Gilbert, the architect who designed the Supreme Court building; and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., a l ....