Arts & Culture

My mother told me I had a way with words. She was proud of my poetry and stories, and said I was a natural born writer. I was flattered but I didn’t entirely believe her. She was a high school dropout and suffered from schizophrenia. I’m not sure if schizophrenia caused her to drop out of high school at sixteen. She often heard voices telling her to do things. 

New Deal Murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel are located in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. The art cannot be viewed by the public. The Cohen Building is closed. The Cohen Building and other older federal buildings are slated for sale and eventual demolition. They might destroy the murals, but they cannot erase our collective consciousness, what we remember and pass down to our children. #wilburjcohenbuilding #philipguston #benshahn