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Michele H. Bogart

Michele H. Bogart is a professor of art history at Stony Brook University and the author of Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890–1930 (1989/1997), Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art (1995), The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission (2006), and Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York (2018). From 1999 through 2003, she was the vice president of the Art Commission of the City of New York (since renamed the Public Design Commission), the City’s design review agency, and she presently serves on the PDC’s Conservation Advisory Group. (September 2019)

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The Problem with Canceling the Arnautoff Murals

“As I see it,” wrote Arnautoff in 1935, “the artist is a critic of society.” That critical stance underpinned The Life of George Washington and much the artists’s public work.

September 16, 2019