Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”

President Trump's plans to sell a federal building housing works of art about Social Security is an attempt to erase the country’s history, a new petition argues.

Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”
Left side panel detail of Ben Shahn's mural "The Meaning of Social Security" at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building (photo by Carol Highsmith via Library of Congress)