Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
On June 19th, the long-awaited, over-budgeted, massive boondoggle of the Obama Presidential Library will be opening. If this much-anticipated event were to reveal an exemplary icon of American beauty, then perhaps it would be worth the wait. Unfortunately, the monstrosity that is the Obama Presidential Library is akin to an alien concrete cyborg spaceship that has crash landed into Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. An eyesore that speaks volumes about America’s rejection of beauty and of our great cultural past. For a former President to approve such a brutalist style of “art” is a national embarrassment. But that isn’t the worst outcome of this ugly disaster.
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