Justin Shubow
Justin Benjamin Shubow | |
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| Chair of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts | |
| In office January 2021 – June 2021 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Earl A. Powell III |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Idris Leppla |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) University of Michigan (MA) Yale University (JD) |
Justin Shubow is an American architectural critic who currently serves as the president of the National Civic Art Society, a nonprofit organization that advocates and promotes public art and architecture in the classical tradition. He is chairman of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Beautifying Transportation Infrastructure Council. He was a member of the United States Commission of Fine Arts from 2018 to 2021 and served as its chairman in 2021, being the first Jewish person to hold that position. The New York Times has called him “one of modern architecture’s biggest critics.”