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There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.
['Timothy Noah', 'Malcolm Ferguson', 'Hafiz Rashid', 'Emma Janssen', 'Tnr Staff', 'Virginia Heffernan', 'Susan Milligan', 'Melissa Gira Grant']
New Republic
and I want to congratulate you on this work.… The most exciting section of the painting, to me, was the figure examining the wheat in the lower right hand section. The Social Security Building, which is now called the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, is on a list of 45 buildings designated by the General Services Administration for “accelerated disposition” in 2025. Gray Brechin, founder of a nonprofit called the Living New Deal, which uses creative crowdsourcing to track the fate of New Deal art around the country, told me the Cohen building is “a kind of Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.”