{"id":840335,"date":"2026-09-08T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840335\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:16:08","slug":"kennedy-centers-dismantled-blue-sculpture-purchased-by-david-rubenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840335\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center\u2019s dismantled \u2018Blue\u2019 sculpture purchased by David Rubenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DWCKEGFXUZGXXCWCYZVMCHJVWE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The former chairman of the Kennedy Center, who was ousted by President Donald Trump after he took control in 2025, bought the piece for more than $2 million with the intention to eventually display it in the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art, where Rubenstein serves as chairman of the  board of trustees. The purchase was first reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/07\/arts\/design\/blue-sculpture-kennedy-center-rubenstein.html\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/07\/arts\/design\/blue-sculpture-kennedy-center-rubenstein.html\">by the New York Times.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former chairman of the Kennedy Center, who was ousted by President Donald Trump after he took control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-840335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}