Like ISIS destroying the
Roman Ruins in Palmyra Syria, Donald Trump destroys art for profit in
uneducated barbaric whims.
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| Art Destroyed For Profit by Donald Trump
Bonwit Teller, New
York City. Image via The Department Store Museum.
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Before the demolition of the
Bonwit Teller building, Trump promised to donate the sculptures from the
structure's Art Deco facade, as well as the decorative grillwork above the
store's main entrance, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[18] The museum's
appraised valued the sculptures at at least $200,000.[19] However, without
warning, Trump's workmen shattered the sculptures with jackhammers and cut the
grillwork into scrap metal. Several days later, Trump admitted that he had
ordered the destruction himself.[18] Later in 1980, he boasted that the decor
of his Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City included "real art, not like the
junk I destroyed at Bonwit Teller".[20] The New York Times condemned
Trump's actions as "esthetic vandalism", and a spokesman for Mayor
Edward Koch said Trump had failed his "moral responsibility to consider
the interests of the people of the city”.[18]
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| Bonwit Teller, New York City. Image via The Department Store Museum. |
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| 1935 Walter Agar - The New Architectural Sculpture
Artist : Rene Paul Chambellan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Paul_Chambellan  
Destroyed Art Deco Masterpieces -
.Manhattan (goddess) Dancing in the Winds ("Without Artistic Merit" - DJT) . |
