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The 40-years-in-the-making Four Freedoms Park, architect Louis Kahn’s memorial to FDR at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, finally opened in October, and it was worth the wait. A four-acre ...
Tucked between Manhattan and Queens, there’s a small island in the middle of New York City that most visitors don’t even realise exists. At just 800 feet wide and two miles long, Roosevelt Island is ...
Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park. (And yes, we’re talking about an actual island, so guests were warned there would be a 15 minute walk to the location from the drop-off point. We sincerely hope ...
Arthur Szyk, a marquee illustrator for Collier’s who signed some paintings “FDR’s soldier in art,” also illustrated the “Four Freedoms.” But his works, featuring a knight ...
This year four lecturers take up the themes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms": freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the Four Freedoms in the lead-up to World War II, which he said defines the United States to the world and will make our cause a common one with all ...
Unveiled on 28 November 2022, Eyes on Iran is a multifaceted public art installation, punctuating the spaces of New York’s FDR Four Freedoms State Park. Eye motifs have been staged in different scales ...
Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park. Visitors are invited to "pick" a flower from the exhibition to take with them; additional ...
I wanted to seek out four perspectives on this complex idea based on FDR's famous Four Freedoms speech – a speech made in 1941 at such a precarious moment for the world. I’m delighted that ...