Posted by artscivica on September 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Alice B. Lloyd wrote in the Weekly Standard: Drunk History Frank Gehry’s proposed Eisenhower monument is an impressionistic metal-wrought doodle of the cliffs of Normandy. Ike would have hated it. 12:11 PM, SEP 22, 2017 | By ALICE B. LLOYD “It looks like tin foil balled up and woven through bubble wrap,” observes Katrina Bridges, 52, a … Read more
Posted by artscivica on August 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment
George F. Will published the following column in the Washington Post: The Proposed Eisenhower Memorial Is a Monstrosity By George F. Will August 19, 2015 We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and economize waste and annoyance by just building the proposed $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. But long after its perpetrators are gone, … Read more
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Posted by artscivica on August 3, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial board writes: Do It Right Bob Dole has a new project. Long a champion of this country’s veterans, his own withered arm says more about his wartime service and sacrifice than any statue could. Now he’s leading a peacetime campaign to get the long-planned Eisenhower Memorial in Washington finished while he … Read more
Posted by artscivica on September 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment
After 15 years and $40 million spent, Frank Gehry’s wildly unpopular design for the National Eisenhower Memorial is on life support. Not a shovel of dirt has been turned, Congress zeroed all construction funding, and the National Capital Planning Commission denied preliminary approval. Recently, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Environment voted to eliminate … Read more
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Posted by artscivica on July 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Event Details: The National Civic Art Society cordially invites you to a luncheon briefing on the planned National Eisenhower Memorial. The briefing will cover the status of the imperiled design by Frank Gehry and the alternatives before Congress. Lunch will be provided. Date: Friday, July 18, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT) Location: The … Read more
Category Bruce Cole, Congressional opposition, Eisenhower Family, Eisenhower Memorial Commission, exorbitant cost, Frank Gehry, John S.D. Eisenhower, National Capital Planning Commission, National Civic Art Society, National Park Service, NCAS Report on the Eisenhower Memorial, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Upcoming events
Posted by artscivica on February 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Originally published by Roll Call: It’s Time to Bury Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial | Commentary By Justin Shubow Feb. 3, 2014, 1:20 p.m. The Eisenhower Memorial is dead. Not the memorial itself, but the wildly unpopular design by Frank Gehry. The decisive blow is Congress’ 2014 budget, which denied the $49 million in construction funds … Read more
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Posted by artscivica on November 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Roll Call reports: Eisenhower Memorial Stuck in Neutral By Hannah Hess Roll Call Staff Nov. 25, 2013, 3:55 p.m. It’s been 14 years since Congress determined that a memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower was needed, but the question of how to do right by Ike continues to confound. An urban park, dreamed up by … Read more
Category "columns", "tapestries", Alex Krieger, durability, Frank Gehry, impermanence, National Capital Planning Commission, National Civic Art Society, National Park Service, National Park Service FOIA Request, NCPC Design Principles, Teresita Fernández, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Posted by artscivica on November 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
In a profile of Frank Gehry, the Financial Times reports: The Eisenhower project is the one that is currently giving him the most headaches . . . . “It’s complicated,” says Gehry. . . . And then the tone of his voice turns suddenly weary: “I don’t know whether it will get built.” … Read more
Posted by artscivica on July 22, 2013 · 2 Comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 22, 2013 CONTACT: [email protected] or (202) 670-1776 National Civic Art Society Slams Ike Memorial at Fine Arts Commission, Says Central Statue Belongs in a Snow-globe On Thursday, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts–the federal agency tasked with protecting the aesthetics of the National Mall–took up the planned National Eisenhower Memorial. (For news stories on the event, … Read more
Category "columns", "tapestries", anti-heroism, barefoot boy Eisenhower statue, bloated size, Eisenhower Memorial Commission, Frank Gehry, impermanence, National Civic Art Society, NCAS Report on the Eisenhower Memorial, ruined temple, statuary, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
Posted by artscivica on December 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Evan Mantyk writes in the Epoch Times: New Design Could Save Troubled Eisenhower Monument Modern design is stalled, classical vision is put forward December 23, 2012 NEW YORK—A planned monument to President Dwight Eisenhower in Washington, D.C., funded largely by taxpayer dollars, has been put off until next year amid controversy over the design. … Read more
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Posted by artscivica on December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Paul Greenberg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, writes: I Like Ike LITTLE ROCK — Ordinarily, the news that a long overdue memorial to an historic American leader has been put on hold still again would come as a disappointment. But if you’ve seen the innocuous design for an Eisenhower memorial in the nation’s … Read more
Posted by artscivica on October 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Robert Campbell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Boston Globe, wrote a hard-hitting article detailing numerous irredemiable flaws in Frank Gehry’s avant-garde design for the Eisenhower Memorial. It’s way too big. It’s too cartoony. Someone should scrub the design and start over. It’s the proposal for a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower, the World War … Read more
Posted by artscivica on May 11, 2012 · 1 Comment
On March 20, 2012, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands of the House Committee on Natural Resources held a historic hearing about Frank Gehry’s proposed design for the Eisenhower Memorial. Howard Segermark, chairman emeritus of the National Civic Art Society, testified against the design and the process that selected it. (His remarks can … Read more
Category "tapestries", barefoot boy Eisenhower statue, Charles Ray, closed competition, Congressional opposition, Congressman Rob Bishop, Eisenhower Memorial Commission, Eisenhower Memorial Commission minutes, Frank Gehry, GSA, House Subcommittee Hearing, impermanence, Ret. Gen. Carl Reddel, the Memorial and the law
Posted by artscivica on April 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Michael J. Lewis, a distinguished professor of art at Williams College, wrote a powerful essay on the decline in American monuments, including how Frank Gehry’s design of the Eisenhower Memorial serves as an example: The Decline of American Monuments and Memorials MICHAEL J. LEWIS, the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College, has taught American art and … Read more
Posted by artscivica on April 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Architectural Record, perhaps the most influential magazine in the field, published an article on the growing opposition to Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial: A Monumental Debate April 16, 2012 Will the Frank Gehry-designed Ike Memorial ever get built? By Ben Adler For an architect, no commission is more troublesome than creating a national memorial. Frank Gehry is … Read more
Posted by artscivica on April 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Roger Scruton is one of the world’s most esteemed philosophers. In particular, he is one of the leading philosophers of art and architecture. See, for example, his books The Aesthetics of Architecture, The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism, and Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. You can also watch his BBC documentary, Why Beauty … Read more
Posted by artscivica on April 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Writing for Better! Cities & Towns, Milton Grenfell, vice-chairman of the National Civic Art Society, demolished Witold Rybczynski’s defense of the Eisenhower Memorial in the New York Times: Witold Rybczynski’s recent New York Times op-ed piece, “Don’t Undermine the Eisenhower Memorial Design,” contains five incorrect assertions and two misleading ones. Thus, it not surprisingly comes to a flawed … Read more
Posted by artscivica on April 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Greg Crosby published an article in the Tolucan Times, a Los Angeles-area newspaper, critiquing the Eisenhower Memorial design: Do They Really Like Ike? By Greg Crosby on April 5th, 2012 The wisdom has always been that history is written by the winners of wars. And today it appears that it works the same way for the culture wars … Read more
Posted by samantha on April 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
On March 20, 2012, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands of the House Committee on Natural Resources held a historic hearing about Frank Gehry’s proposed design for the Eisenhower Memorial. Howard Segermark, chairman emeritus of the National Civic Art Society, testified against the design and the process that selected it. (See below for … Read more
Category Anne Eisenhower, classical and traditional architecture, closed competition, Congressional opposition, Daniel J. Feil, Edward A. Feiner, Eisenhower Family, Eisenhower Memorial Commission, Eisenhower Memorial Commission minutes, Frank Gehry, House Subcommittee Hearing, National Civic Art Society, NCAS Report on the Eisenhower Memorial, public opposition, Rocco C. Siciliano, Susan Eisenhower
Posted by artscivica on March 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Bernie Quigley writes for The Hill: ‘Deconstruct’ the Eisenhower memorial committee By Bernie Quigley – 03/21/12 09:47 AM ET Dwight D. Eisenhower was as elementary to our lives as the five-star highways are today. He was a man like Ulysses S. Grant and Lord Nelson, but he did not strive to be. Hear Nelson declaring that … Read more