Michael Schaffer

1 day ago | politico.com | Michael Schaffer

Thanks to a quirk of local rules that puts the federal government in charge of city parks, Dupont Circle has been fenced off just as people around the world come to DC for pride. Workers put up fencing around Dupont Circle ahead of the World Pride Parade, Friday, June 6, 2025, in Washington. | AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine.

6 days ago | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Michael Schaffer

— Wydaje się to zupełnie niewykonalne — mówi wprost Daniel Kunitz, redaktor magazynu "Sculpture". Ambitny plan Donalda Trumpa zakłada odsłonięcie 250 posągów naturalnej wielkości przed 250. "urodzinami narodu", które przypadają na 4 lipca przyszłego roku. Niedawno administracja zdziesiątkowała federalne urzędy zajmujące się sztuką, a resztki personalu przekierowała na projekt parku na świeżym powietrzu o wartości 34 mln dol. [ok. 127 mln zł].

1 week ago | politico.com | Michael Schaffer

It’s nothing if not ambitious. The plan is to unveil 250 life-sized statues in time for the nation’s 250th birthday next year on July 4. Having decimated large chunks of the federal arts bureaucracy, the administration has reoriented much of what’s left to the $34 million outdoor park project, a singular Trump goal since his first term. “It’s going to be something very extraordinary,” Trump told a White House audience in February.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Michael Schaffer

The naked billboard that shocked the establishment – and blazed a trail in the art worldIt's been 40 years since the controversial activist group Guerrilla Girls formed. Their most powerful campaign, the "naked poster", broke new ground – and has had a lasting influence. On a Sunday morning in New York in 1989, a few women perused the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of …

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Michael Schaffer

When two Israeli embassy staffers were gunned down outside the Jewish Museum, Washington’s entire diplomatic world felt the effects. A man draped in the Israeli flag, bearing a cross and the name "Jesus" at its center, gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in Washington, in the early hours of May 22, 2025.