Month: July 2010
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Kennicott essay, American Latino Museum
Power has been restored following Sunday’s wild storm so we can send you from last Sunday’s Washington Post culture critic Phil Kennicott’s thoughtful follow-up essay about the proposed Latino museum, lessons learned from the American Indian Museum on the Mall, and how we conceive museums that will be still relevant in 2050.
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Blogs Comment on National Ideas Competition
Two local blogs have picked up on the National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds project.
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Blogs on Latino Museum Site Selection
Dear Coalition Friends: Two DC area blogs, DCmud and GreaterGreaterWashington, also have been commenting on the Latino Museum site selection. DCmud provides photographs of targeted buildings for those who are not familiar with […]
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Post culture critic on the Latino Museum
Dear Coalition Friends: In Sunday’s Washington Post, culture critic Philip Kennicott reviewed the site selection options for the Latino Museum and called on the District of Columbia government and Latino Museum Commission to take a long view. […]
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National Museum of the American Latino site selection
Dear Coalition Friends: As promised in our last UPDATE, here is a quick update on the National Museum of the American Latino site selection presentation before the National Capital Planning Commission last Thursday. […]
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America’s front yard
This letter below is in response to The Washington Post’s July 4th “Topic A,” “What would you do to change America’s front yard?”
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Wrong Thing, Wrong Time (Editorial by The Los Angeles Times)
Thursday’s meeting of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has been moved from a small conference room to an Interior Department auditorium, one measure of a growing tumult over the […]
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Topic A: What would you do to change America’s front yard?
Judy Scott Feldman, Ken Salazar, Caroline Cunningham and James P. Clark share their visions for how to upgrade, expand or change the federal lands in the heart of our nation’s capital.
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