Childs Resigns as Head of Fine Arts Panel
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Citing an increased workload at Ground Zero in New York, architect David M. Childs resigned as chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts at its Thursday morning meeting.
The commission promptly elected National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. Powell III as the new chairman.
"I did this with great reluctance, but I was worried about being able to continue to do both roles well," Childs said yesterday.
A partner in the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Childs was the co-designer with architect Daniel Libeskind of Freedom Tower, the 1776-foot-tall centerpiece of rebuilding efforts at the site of the former World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Last week, Childs was put in charge of redesigning the tower in the wake of security concerns raised by the New York Police Department.
Powell is the third director of the National Gallery to be appointed chairman of the federal agency, created in 1910 to safeguard architectural aesthetics in the nation's capital. David Finley, the gallery's first director, led the commission from 1950 to 1963, and J. Carter Brown served as chairman from 1971 until 2002.
-- Benjamin Forgey
