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Trump appointee Rodney Mims Cook Jr. exits U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
On March 23, the Biden administration declared the supposed appointment of Lisa Delplace, principal and CEO of Washington, D.C.–based landscape architecture agency Oehme, van Sweden (OvS), to the U.S. Fee of Wonderful Arts (CFA). This news signaled an conclusion to a around-unprecedented—albeit comparatively brief—period in which the impartial, seven-member federal agency billed with providing skilled guidance on style and design and aesthetics pertaining to architectural growth in the nation’s capital was without a landscape architect in its ranks. The American Culture of Landscape Architects and other groups that had previously urged the White Home to proper the lapse by appointing a landscape architect to the CFA applauded the information. “The Fee…
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Jon McNaughton art: Controversial artist launches Trump NFT collection
At first glance, Jon McNaughton’s in-home studio looks like any other. A stool sits in front of an easel. A desk to one side is covered in brushes and splotched palettes. Framed paintings dot the walls, including a mountain landscape, a portrait and a modern rendering of “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” But upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that McNaughton’s space is uniquely his own — the rendering of “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” for instance, features the former president Donald Trump instead of Washington — and the crew in the boat paddles across a swamp, with the U.S. Capitol rotunda glowing in the background. If you feel McNaughton’s artwork is…
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Philly’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping documentary comes a year after Trump campaign press conference
It’s not usually that a loved ones-owned landscaping small business receives to host a news convention in the wake of a presidential election, total with baseless conspiracy theories, a tale swirling about a mistaken venue and, of study course, copious finger-pointing and accusations. But Four Seasons Whole Landscaping, a Northeast Philadelphia landscaping small business, did just that when Rudy Giuliani, then-President Donald Trump’s particular law firm, held a news convention in the business’ parking large amount Nov. 7, 2020, four times immediately after the presidential election. Now, a documentary spotlighting the humble landscaping firm is coming to tv, exactly a 12 months right after the off-the-rails convention that shot it…


