Ann McLean and Patricia N. Saffran, Concerned Citizens Refuse to Send Confederate Sculptures to LA’s Monuments Exhibition

Ann McLean and Patricia N. Saffran   LA’s Monuments Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, which opens in October, is being funded to desecrate figures from American history. As a result, culture battles are heating up over whether or not to send magnificent Confederate Beaux Arts monuments to LA. It appears that some museum and city officials in a number of cities have deprived the public, who don’t want their local historic statues sent to the LA show, of having their say. The public opposes the exhibition’s controversial display of…

Patricia N. Saffran, Frontal Assault at the Sherman Equestrian Monument in New York’s Central Park

Patricia N. Saffran New York City officials finally got rid of the highly polluting, unsightly large food trucks surrounding Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ historic masterpiece, the Sherman Equestrian Monument, off Fifth Avenue. https://jameshfetzer.org/2023/07/patricia-n-saffran-sherman-monument-ambushed-on-fifth-avenue-central-park/  Now the monument has a new enemy, an awkward, clunky, appalling Citibank bike rack, placed right in front of the valuable sculpture.   After the Plaza Hotel’s lawsuit against NYC DOT to remove the abysmal Citibank bike rack from their entrance was tossed by a judge, https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/judge-tosses-lawsuit-by-plaza-hotel-asking-to-have-citi-bike-rack-removed/  the bike rack continued its green mission in front of the hotel, all the while…