This week’s meeting, which began with a discussion of proposed landscaping elements, quickly turned to the two most controversial aspects of Gehry’s design – the metal tapestries which define the memorial precinct and the freestanding columns which support the tapestries.

The small, but influential commission that oversees public art on federal grounds signed off on the architect Frank Gehry’s oft-disputed design for the planned memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission voted unanimously to approve Frank Gehry’s controversial design for a memorial to the World War II Supreme Allied Commander and 34th president.

The group backing an alternative design for the Eisenhower Memorial could take a page from the history of the Lincoln Memorial.

In the context of controversy raging over the proposed memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, does another monument to a great general-turned-president live up to the figure to which it pays tribute?

The Ramones’ debut album, Dark Side of the Moon, “The Twist,” and many other recorders are deemed culturally significant by the Library of Congress.

Last year, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission created a website featuring images of President Dwight D. Eisenhower inserted into modern-day scenes to help build support for the controversially designed memorial.

It’s never a good idea to design anything by committee, much less should the nation’s memorials be left to members of Congress. Regardless, a proposed design for a memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower that has attracted widespread criticism will be the topic of a congressional hearing later this month.

As the backlash to Frank Gehry’s design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial continues, conservative commentator David Frum writes on The Daily Beast that hiring Gehry to design the monument “was an exercise in predictable failure.”