A New Kind of Monument

Rubén Ortiz Torres's Dead Heads Envisions a New Kind of Monument

Rubén Ortiz Torres tells us more about his inspiration for the project Dead Heads, which responds to a site in Los Angeles where a number of ...

The New Monuments That America Needs | The New Yorker

Whether monuments take the form of a statue, building, or pillar, they present themselves as universal and timeless, expressing something ...

A New Kind of Monument: The Clemens House Ruin - NextSTL

The James Clemens, Jr. House and its attached wings still tell St. Louis about its material past. A fire in July removed most of the wood, and shook loose ...

A new kind of monument rises in New Orleans: Prospect.4 works | Arts

"Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp" brings together 73 acclaimed artists from New Orleans and around the world in 17 venues.

A new kind of monument - URA

The Founders' Memorial aims to commemorate how independent Singapore came to be, and inspire Singaporeans to commit themselves to building the nation's future, ...

New Monuments for New Cities | The High Line

New Monuments for New Cities is the inaugural project of the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, a new collaboration between infrastructure reuse projects ...

What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal ...

It is a public art exhibition in which artists were asked to imagine new monuments. Their designs, on posters or on renderings that will be ...

New Monuments for New Cities - The 606

New Monuments for New Cities is ... Do they require the bronze statues of public plazas, or can a monument take a more ephemeral or unconventional form?

A new monument dedicated to MLK and Coretta Scott King sparks ...

Backlash ensued soon after a monument meant to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King's legacy in Boston was ...

Confederate and Colonialist Monuments Are Finally Being Toppled ...

Stevenson didn't want the project to serve only as a space of grief and rage, but also as a monument to perseverance. So from these devastating ...

The Monuments Project | Mellon Foundation

While funds may support new monuments, memorials, and historic storytelling places, the projects we support take many forms. Some are ...

Reimagining public monuments | WBUR News

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's Office of Arts and Culture announced a new multi-year program this month: "Un-monument | Re-monument | De-monument: ...

New Monuments | ArtWorks Cincinnati

New Monuments can take the form of prototypes, outdoor art exhibitions, and mixed media materials. They are more than memorials, historians' markers, and ...

America's Monuments, Reimagined for a More Just Future

With colonialist statues being toppled in America and beyond, T asked five artists to envision a different kind of memorial, one that embodies this moment of ...

The Conceptual Monument: 'New Monuments for New Cities'

The Conceptual Monument: 'New Monuments for New Cities'. March ... form of a 120 ft long curved, steel wall was erected on the plaza of ...

Artist Jeffrey Gibson on Making a More Inclusive Monument

It combines forms derived from pre-Columbian earth mounds and architecture, abundant surface decoration, and live-streamed performances atop the ...

A Different Kind Of Monument - WUNC

The new “Oberlin Rising” monument in Raleigh commemorates one of the first African-American communities in the city. After the Civil War, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...