"The primary concern of any government dominated by the humane ideals of democracy is the simple principle that in a land of vast resources no one should be permitted to starve." —Franklin D.

After more than forty years, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island will finally come to fruition, almost exactly as architect Louis I. Kahn envisioned it.

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...