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A New Kind of Monument


Thomas Hirschhorn in “Investigation” (SEGMENT) - Art21

The process leads to the creation of a new kind of monument that, while physically ephemeral, lives on in collective memory. More ...

In the Pacific, a New Kind of Monument Is Proposed - GoUpstate

The Bush administration is taking steps to create a new kind of national monument encompassing Pearl Harbor and other World War II sites in the Pacific.

Assembly required: A monument to community (built by students)

The students, who are enrolled in what is known as the “Six Pretty Good Ideas” seminar program, helped erect “Monument (Pyramid),” a sculpture ...

Design transformations in monuments and memorials as ...

Unlike buildings that provide essential shelter functions, they exist as a form of physical structure and serve as a place for people's emotions ...

New Kehinde Wiley statue unveiled in Richmond Va of an African ...

Modeled after a statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on Monument Avenue, the Wiley sculpture appropriates the look of Lost Cause glory to ...

Monuments Now | Socrates Sculpture Park

MONUMENTS NOW evolves over three cumulative parts. Part I opens opens summer 2020 with major new commissions for contemporary monuments by acclaimed artists ...

On Creating Speculative Monuments for Los Angeles

The prompt for the residency was to research and create augmented reality monuments that would function as blueprints for a site-specific ...

Monument Lab: A City-Wide Art Museum That Asks Us To “Leave ...

Paul Farber: We are clearly at a moment of reckoning when it comes to our monuments. Its a moment, however, not cooked up merely in the past few ...

Breaking the Monument (Images of Resistence) - 13 June 2021

Breaking the Monument is a selection of works from artists from very different backgrounds that, in diverse ways, attack the power of pre-established images, of ...

New monument dedicated to MLK and Coretta Scott King opens in ...

Just a few days before what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 94th birthday, “Embrace,” a monument dedicated to King and his wife, ...

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Monument - Smarthistory

From his Manhattan apartment, Wodiczko shares his early drawings of the project, where he conceived of how he would project video onto a prominent 1881 monument ...

The New Kind of Monument | Ramparts of Civilization

The perspectives of country and principle that at one time inspired and emboldened an nation to consider a permanent memorial to greatness to be ...

There's a new way to deal with Confederate monuments: Signs that ...

There's a new way to deal with Confederate monuments: Signs that explain their racist history ... The plaques' every word is a testament to pain — ...

What's in a Name? Questions for a New Monument - Stedelijk Studies

The discursive content or function of the monument (i.e. what it commemorates) is activated through the viewer's personal, immersive encounter with its form, a ...

Weak Monument | Park Books

In Estonia, the classical notion of a monument is a strange appearance. Its presence is marginal, its tradition nonexistent and its form tormented by an ...

'Monument to the Unelected' in Orange is a different kind of political ...

Cleverly titled “Monument to the Unelected,” the display invites viewers to reflect on moments past when the country is poised to take a step ...

Project underway to get Philadelphians to see public monuments in ...

The Monument Lab will present work by 20 artists in 10 city parks, each trying out new ways to create public monuments. The public is asked to ...

"Monument and Marker" Celebrates the Communal Power of Making ...

She said, "'Monument' memorializes our place within the natural world. It reminds us in a gentle way of our origins and our purposes. We are all ...

Kehinde Wiley Raises Monument to a New Kind of History in Times ...

Kehinde Wiley, famed for painting Barack Obama's likeness for the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled a monumental new sculpture in Times ...

Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep ...

The museum has a lot of reading. Even the lynching memorial was kind of abstracted. I said, 'This will be a little easier.' I'm not sure that's ...