is also part of the war on the arts in America.
In the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri enumerates, now that Florida students are not allowed to be shown a picture of Michelangelo’s David, and the principal who wanted to expose them to great art was forced to resign, how many crucial works could be next.
She’s funny about it, but she’s serious:
” Parents, be warned! There will be art in this art class!”
couldn’t prevent DeSantis from coming across as a weird, mechanical bobble head.
Bill DeBlasio tried to sandbag the perpetually-underfunded Landmarks Preservation Commission; the two LPC Chairwomen he appointed were there to implement his agenda, not act in the best interests of the city. Sarah Carroll, DeBlasio’s second appointee, remains in her position today.
In order to service the developers who funded him, DeBlasio did perhaps irrevocable damage to preservation and developmental guardrails in New York City.
Now Mayor Adams proposes crippling cuts to the LPC as part of his own developer-pleasuring agenda.
100-year old Grace Lynn appeared at a Florida school board meeting this week to excoriate the attempts by DeSantis and his fellow fascists to generate “fear of knowledge.
“Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control. My husband died as a father of freedom. I am a mother of liberty. Banned books need to be proudly displayed and protected.”
She displayed a quilt she sewed last year depicting books that are under attack by the fascists.
Pictures From Home.
Don’t know why it’s not selling, but tickets are steeply reduced through the end of the limited run.
For Air Mail, I preview “Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s,” now on view at New York’s Museum of Art and Design.
Apparently, it has decided that it is not a news organization, but rather a cowering conduit of misinformation.
When one of its reporters correctly called a DeSantis Bureau of Misinformation communication “propaganda,” Axios fired him.
The Washington Post reports.
If you don’t want 150 story buildings on every NYC corner, it would be a good idea to go the Village Preservation web site and register your disapproval of Governor Hochul’s and Mayor Adams’ scheme to lift all caps on residential building height, thus destroying our skyline, our urban scale, and our stock of affordable housing. Historic low-rise rent-stabilized buildings will be destroyed to make way for more behemoths designed to provide investment opportunities for the international rich.
With DeSantis, the Republicans cross another sordid, squalid Rubicon.
Ron DeSantis is a Christo-Fascist funded by very wealthy Christo-Fascists.
