Ike Memorial Design Testing Shows Govt. Materials Experts Have Serious...
Debris Being Introduced to the Eisenhower Memorial Tapestry Mockup; Source: National Capital Planning Commission Technical Report FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 12, 2013 CONTACT: info@civicart.org or...
View ArticleEisenhower Memorial Design Receives Major Setback as National Capital...
Photo 8: Loose wire braids in the Eisenhower Memorial Tapestry Mockup; Source: National Capital Planning Commission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15, 2013 CONTACT: info@civicart.org or (202) 670-1776...
View ArticleNCAS Slams Ike Memorial at Fine Arts Commission, Says Central Statue Belongs...
National Civic Art Society President Justin Shubow Speaks to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts About the Eisenhower Memorial as Frank Gehry Looks On (bottom left). Commission Secretary Thomas Luebke...
View Article*** President Obama Appoints National Civic Art Society Advisor Bruce Cole to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 3, 2013 CONTACT: info@civicart.org or (202) 670-1776 President Obama Appoints National Civic Art Society Advisor Bruce Cole to Eisenhower Memorial Commission Eisenhower...
View ArticleAP: Congress Says No to Eisenhower Memorial Funding
The Associated Press reports: Congress Says No to Eisenhower Memorial Funding BRETT ZONGKER — Jan. 17, 2014 3:21 PM EST Funding requested to begin building the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial...
View ArticleRoll Call: It’s Time to Bury Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial
Originally published by Roll Call: It’s Time to Bury Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial | Commentary By Justin Shubow Feb. 3, 2014, 1:20 p.m. The Eisenhower Memorial is dead. Not the memorial itself,...
View ArticleNew York Sun Editorial: Ike Memorial Is a Monument to the Architect, Not the...
The Eisenhower Memorial Editorial of The New York Sun | June 16, 2014 An email this morning alerts us to the crisis brewing over the memorial to President Eisenhower planned for the mall in...
View ArticleNational Civic Art Society, Represented by Jones Day, Obtains Eisenhower...
[For media coverage of this announcement, see Roll Call’s story “House Appropriations Investigators Probing Eisenhower Memorial Commission.”] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2014 CONTACT:...
View ArticleNational Civic Art Society to Host Capitol Hill Briefing on Ike Memorial on...
Event Details: The National Civic Art Society cordially invites you to a luncheon briefing on the planned National Eisenhower Memorial. The briefing will cover the status of the imperiled design by...
View ArticleVideo of National Civic Art Society U.S. House Briefing on the Eisenhower...
After 15 years and $40 million spent, Frank Gehry’s wildly unpopular design for the National Eisenhower Memorial is on life support. Not a shovel of dirt has been turned, Congress zeroed all...
View ArticleU.S. House Bill Seeks to Defund Eisenhower Memorial Design, Calls for “Reset”
The Free Beacon reports: A new bill in the House of Representatives would likely scuttle the controversial memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower opposed by the 34th president’s family. The bill from the...
View ArticleNational Review: Congress Needs to Kill Frank Gehry’s Awful Eisenhower...
Architecture critic Catesby Leigh comments for National Review: Congress Needs to Kill Frank Gehry’s Awful Eisenhower Memorial Once and For All For thousands of years, erecting a monument to a great...
View ArticleGeorge Will: The Proposed Eisenhower Memorial Is a Monstrosity
George F. Will published the following column in the Washington Post: The Proposed Eisenhower Memorial Is a Monstrosity By George F. Will August 19, 2015 We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and...
View Article*** Congress Zeroes All Construction Funds for Eisenhower Memorial Design ***
The Free Beacon reports: Congress Zeroes Construction Funds for Eisenhower Memorial Omnibus text cites ‘concerns’ from Congress, Eisenhower family By: Morgan Chalfant December 17, 2015 1:15 pm Congress...
View ArticleWaPo: It’s Time for a Do-Over for the Eisenhower Memorial
Sam Roche comments in the Washington Post: A Do-Over for Ike: Scrap the Pricey Memorial Design and Hold a Public Competition By Sam Roche February 12 at 1:48 PM Congress may not be very popular these...
View Article58 Generals, Admirals Sign Letter Opposing Design of Eisenhower Memorial
The Free Beacon reports: 58 Generals, Admirals Sign Letter Opposing Design of Eisenhower Memorial Seek a memorial that ‘unites rather than divides’ BY: Blake Seitz September 13, 2016 5:20 pm...
View ArticleThe American Conservative: Eisenhower Memorial Carried Forward by Resignation...
Micah Meadowcraft writes for The American Conservative: Will Eisenhower Ever Have a Fitting Memorial? By MICAH MEADOWCROFT • March 8, 2017, 12:00 AM Few seem to really like it, but for now it seems to...
View ArticleBreitbart: Save Eisenhower’s Memorial from Washington
Sam Roche writes for Breitbart: Save Eisenhower’s Memorial from Washington 26 Mar 2017 Breitbart The swamp in Washington encroaches on our very Mall, where it threatens to claim a planned memorial to...
View ArticleWeekly Standard: Ike Would’ve Hated His Proposed Memorial
Alice B. Lloyd wrote in the Weekly Standard: Drunk History Frank Gehry’s proposed Eisenhower monument is an impressionistic metal-wrought doodle of the cliffs of Normandy. Ike would have hated it....
View ArticleThe Federalist: Only Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Can Stop the Eisenhower...
Catesby Leigh writes in The Federalist: 3 Reasons The Dwight Eisenhower Memorial Design Is A Disgrace To America Frank Gehry’s hideous design has finally cleared the last official review-board hurdle....
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