The NY Times Check In On the MLK/Yixin Debate

You might recall a couple of weeks back when we were reporting on the uproar surrounding the selection of Lei Yixin to create the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in DC. Now the NY Times has put together a full feature on the story, adding fuel to the fire when it was learned that the sculptor has also made statues of Mao Zedong in his native China. It’s a great well-rounded look, from all sides of an argument that we, just working off pure guessing here, figure won’t end positively for Yixin, just as it hasn’t for a lot of the planning since King’s passing.