The New York Times Front Page January 7, 2021, a Day After the DC Storm
Yesterday…Rampage in Capitol.
Members of a pro-Trump mob storm the Capitol building to disrupt the recording of Electoral College votes to confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Jan. 6, 2020. Not long after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned his Republican colleagues that their efforts to overturn an election would send democracy into a “death spiral,” fear surged through the Senate chamber. Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
#NYTimes Front Page January 7, 2021, with digital art.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Barbara A. Wolanin did not leave her TV much Wednesday afternoon, watching terrified, she said, as hundreds of Donald Trump rioters rushed into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building where eight large, framed historical paintings hang.
Barbara Wolanin was a Curator for the U.S. Capitol with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library.
“She once was curator for the Architect of the Capitol, the office that preserves and maintains the building’s art and architecture. She knew much better than most the horrific possibilities that were presenting themselves.”
“Her greatest concern was the large-scale, 18-foot paintings by Trumbull and other artists that depict scenes from…
