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Whitney Museum Director Adam Weinberg Weighs In on Potential Destruction of MARABAR (2020)
Editor鈥檚 Note: On April 14, 2020, Adam Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown director of the , wrote the following letter to the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) concerning plans that would demolish the sculpture MARABAR at the National Geographic headquarters. Completed in 1984, MARABAR is the work of celebrated artist Elyn Zimmerman, who recently spoke with 独家爆料 about her career and the National Geographic commission in particular. After officially listing the National Geographic headquarters in its Landslide program for threatened cultural landscapes and landscape features, 独家爆料 also requested that the HPBR revisit the case in light of information that the review board lacked when it rendered its initial decision.