Art & Architecture: Legacy & Loss

News items that speak to the vast legacy of New Deal art and architecture and to controversies about the loss of historic works or their relevance to modern times.

• Bringing the Invisible Triumphs of the New Deal to Light

  • May 9, 2011

  Criticism of one of the nation’s most important programs can be stopped in its tracks by exposing how it improved our lives. Even those who remain unanimous in their hatred of what FDR accomplished unwittingly use and enjoy what he left behind. They can’t avoid it; that legacy is as inescapable ...
• New Deal or No Deal?

  • November 22, 2010

  Berkeley — In the midst of forecasts of continuing economic woes and congressional gridlock, experts gathered recently at the University of California, Berkeley, to assess what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression-inspired New Deal, the Obama administration's still emerging efforts to ease the Great Recession, and prospects for

  Berkeley — In the midst of forecasts of continuing economic woes and congressional gridlock, experts gathered recently at the University of California, Berkeley, to assess what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression-inspired New Deal, the Obama administration's still emerging efforts to ease the Great Recession, and prospects for ...