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Joel Shapiro Would’ve Been ‘Alarmed’ by Kennedy Center Removal: Family

Joel Shapiro Would’ve Been ‘Alarmed’ by Kennedy Center Removal: Family

Published by Jenni Sidey

A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture is being removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump moves to take control of the space. The sculpture, titled Blue, is one of many works by Shapiro to depict the human form using the spare language of Minimalism. In an Art in America profile of Shapiro published around the time of the artist’s death last year, Max Norman wrote that the artist’s figures appear “gracefully frozen in a gravitational in-between that tickles your brain and tightens your stomach.” Related Articles Of Blue, Shapiro previously said, “It’s about action and risk and performance and energy. It’s a celebration of possibility.” The sculpture was previously located on the REACH, an addition whose name is an acronym that stands for Renew, Experience, Activate, Create, and Honor. Opened in 2019, the REACH also features monumental sculptures by Deborah Butterfield and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as a large statue of John F. Kennedy, the center’s namesake. Sculpted from metal, Blue was installed in 2019 and …

Pa. Gov. Shapiro says many developers don’t care

Pa. Gov. Shapiro says many developers don’t care

Published by Sam Flores

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that “too many” data center developers don’t care about the communities where they are building those artificial intelligence-sector projects, which have met with growing opposition nationwide. Shapiro’s comments to CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” came a day after President Donald Trump said the only reason American communities should not want AI data centers “is if they want to end up being backwards and poor.” “The reality is, I want CEOs that give a damn about the community where they’re going to be,” said Shapiro, who appeared on CNBC with Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya to talk about the Greek yogurt maker’s planned $1.2 billion investment in a new Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, dairy manufacturing hub. “Unfortunately, we’ve seen too many developers who don’t care about our communities who are trying to run roughshod over our communities, and those are the kinds of data center projects we don’t want here,” Shapiro said. “We want to work with people that want to work with local communities.” The governor, who is considered a potential …

Shapiro signs order restricting data centers in Pennsylvania

Shapiro signs order restricting data centers in Pennsylvania

Published by Sam Flores

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on Tuesday signed an executive order that could limit AI data center development in the Keystone State.  The executive order, which implements his Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development (GRID) requirements, requires prospective developers to provide a notice of intent to comply with the safeguards — which include requiring that firms pay… Source link

Gov. Josh Shapiro issues a new executive order on data centers in Pennsylvania

Gov. Josh Shapiro issues a new executive order on data centers in Pennsylvania

Published by Sam Flores

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced significant restrictions on data center projects Tuesday, signing an executive order to stop “predatory” backers and “bad proposals from infecting our commonwealth.” The order, along with the warnings in his remarks for potential data center developers, marked a notable shift for Shapiro, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, who had sought to encourage the industry’s build-out in his state. “I’ve heard loud and clear from the good people of Pennsylvania as I’ve traveled our commonwealth, and I’m here to say today that we will not be bullied by these developers,” Shapiro said. “We will not be bulldozed by the lawyers working for these big tech companies. That will not happen in the commonwealth. We have a long history in Pennsylvania of industry running roughshod over our communities to make a buck — that stops with me.” The new order mandates that data center projects must first be approved by local officials. Developers must also sign a legally binding order in which they commit to guidelines Shapiro laid out in February …

Ben Shapiro Has No Regrets. Except Hiring Candace Owens

Ben Shapiro Has No Regrets. Except Hiring Candace Owens

Published by Sam Flores

Of course criticizing Soros isn’t antisemitic, I say in our interview. But there is a difference between criticism and conspiracy. Looking back, would he say now that when Carlson began attacking Soros, Carlson was also trafficking in antisemitism? “I can’t go to what was in Tucker’s heart back when he was talking about George Soros,” Shapiro replies. “All I can do is sort of characterize actual things that people say. When he was criticizing Soros as a nefarious funding source behind various left-wing mechanisms, I don’t think that’s antisemitic any more than it’s antisemitic for people to say that Sheldon Adelson was a powerful figure funding a lot of right-wing politicians.” It’s what Carlson has done in the years since, Shapiro says, that’s the problem. He’s broadened his criticism to condemn a “supposed substructure of powerful people who are ‘Zionistic’ or ‘pro-Israel,’ and he’s tied that into an entire sort of theological view of what Jews are. And so I think that is a different thing.” Whether that difference is “in degree or in-kind is …

Ben Shapiro Calls Piers Morgan ‘Jerry Springer’ Of Political TV

Ben Shapiro Calls Piers Morgan ‘Jerry Springer’ Of Political TV

Published by Sam Flores

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tore into fellow political pundit Piers Morgan for platforming what he described as “America haters” on his show, calling the right-wing Brit the “Jerry Springer of political television” during Wednesday’s episode of his own YouTube series. The Daily Wire co-founder was left fuming over Morgan’s Tuesday edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, in which comedian-turned-commentator Dave Smith slammed the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran and called the US “arguably the worst terrorist organization in the world,” given the number of civilians killed in US military operations over the last 25 years. Accusing Morgan of making “a mockery of the entire industry by putting on screen whatever dregs are still willing to go on screen,” Shapiro compared the Brit to infamous tabloid talk show host Springer, then blasted Smith as unfunny and ill-informed about foreign policy. Ben Shapiro, here in 2024, fumed at fellow political pundit Piers Morgan for having “America hater” Dave Smith on his show this Tuesday. Connecticut Post/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Shapiro, a staunch defender of Israel …

Jonathan Majors teams with right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro for comeback movie after assault conviction

Jonathan Majors teams with right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro for comeback movie after assault conviction

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jonathan Majors is preparing for his Hollywood return in an untitled new movie, produced by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro through his right-wing media company, The Daily Wire. Written and directed by Kyle Rankin, the upcoming film — which has started production in South Carolina — marks the 36-year-old Marvel actor’s first on-screen role since being convicted in 2023 of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. Shapiro, 42, will co-produce alongside Dallas Sonnier for his Bonfire Legend production company. Travis Mills (Frontier Crucible), Lillian Campbell (The Pendragon Cycle), and Sydney Aucreman (Terror On The Prairie) are also producing, according to Deadline. “You’re not going to BELIEVE what we’re doing,” Shapiro wrote in a post on X accompanying the Deadline story. Details of the film’s plot and additional cast are being kept tightly under wraps, but it’s reportedly being likened to action movies Red Dawn …

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro Files Brief Against Removal of Slavery Exhibit

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro Files Brief Against Removal of Slavery Exhibit

Published by Jenni Sidey

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro filed an amicus brief on Tuesday in support of the City of Philadelphia’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s removal of an exhibit about slavery at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. That exhibit, entitled “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation,” served as a memorial to the nine enslaved people who worked at the President’s House Site, where George Washington lived for the majority of his presidency. (The White House wasn’t completed until 1800, during John Adams’s presidency.) Other panels of the exhibit discussed the slave trade and slave economy, according to the New York Times. Related Articles Independence National Historical Park, which also includes Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, is managed by the National Park Service. The Interior Department removed the exhibit last week, citing President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order in which he listed Independence National Historical Park as being subjected to the “corrosive ideology” of acknowledging the historical accuracy of slavery in this country and that US Presidents owned slaves by falsely …