Tag: Federal
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Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote
A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the read more
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High Museum COO Resigns After Alleged $600,000 Misappropriation, Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors
The chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has resigned after an internal investigation found that approximately $600,000 was allegedly misappropriated over several years and the matter was referred to federal prosecutors, according to theAtlanta Journal-Constitution. Brady Lum, who had served as COO since 2019, tendered his resignation on Dec. 9 amid the read more
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Citing George Orwell, Federal Judge Orders Reinstatement of Slavery Display at George Washington’s Presidential House
Comparing the Trump administration’s efforts to control historical documentation to George Orwell’s 1984, a federal judge ordered the return of displays that acknowledge George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people to a monument in Philadelphia. Last month, the National Park Service removed the signs from the President’s House Site, the presidential residence for Washington and John read more
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Artists Urge Jewish Museum to Save Federal ‘Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art’ from Demolition in Open Letter
The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel. The read more
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