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Unmonument is a black steel industrial lift
Exquisite Corpse

Unmonument by Black Reconstruction Collective refuses “the traditional idea of monuments” to inspire collaborative action

America’s Commemorative Landscape

Mellon Foundation doubles the Monuments Project funding to total $500 million

History in the Making

This July, Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley are commemorated with national monuments, landmarks, and art

Open Door

Olalekan Jeyifous and Amanda Williams’s design for the Shirley Chisholm Monument gets approval

Solidifying Shadows

Nina Cooke John–designed Harriet Tubman monument unveiled in Newark

a monolithic sculpture
Felled Monuments, Broken Minds

Officials launch investigation after enigmatic Georgia monument is targeted in bombing

exterior of a visitor center at a national historic park
Building Memory

Op-ed: Why interpretive centers matter in an era of social change

Rendering of a cartoonish looking fox in the bed of the LA River
Art, Design, and Large Mammals

Daily digest: Ellen DeGeneres loves gorillas, Snapchat and LACMA unveil second collection of virtual monuments, and more

rendering of a lgbtq+ monument surrounded by parkland with a rainbow in the sky
Force of Nature

Winnipeg-based design team wins bid for Canada’s LGBTQ2+ National Monument with Thunderhead

a confederate statue covered in graffiti, the robert e. lee statue in richmond
Plans, Hatched

Richmond’s felled Confederate monuments will likely go to state Black history museum

black and white photo of a towering monument, in the news with hr giger
See You Next Year

Daily digest: A major H.R. Giger retrospective in Berlin, NYC’s monuments are crumbling, and more

the national mall with washington monument where beyond granite will rise
More For The Mall

Van Alen Institute and The Urban Studio will go Beyond Granite on the National Mall

One of the confederate monuments that will go on display in a new show of the same name
Same Name, Different Theme

Toppled Confederate statues will be paired with contemporary art in L.A.’s new MONUMENTS exhibition

rendering of a monument with rows of mirrored stainless steel wands at the LGBTQ2+ National Monument
Remembrance and Reconciliation

Canada’s LGBTQ2+ National Monument is moving ahead, and here are the shortlisted proposals

A large empty gathering space proposed as a prototypical new monument
Monuments Are Dead; Long Live Monuments

Monument Lab and the Mellon Foundation’s National Monument Audit reveals the plasticity of our history

a confederate statue covered in graffiti, the robert e. lee statue in richmond
Dismounted

Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has been taken down

A vacant construction site
COVID Comedown

Daily digest: A 3D investigation of the Surfside collapse, COVID is still battering construction, and more

A statue of robert e lee covered with a black tarp in front of an anti racism march against confederate monuments
To The Halls Of History

More than a dozen organizations apply to acquire Charlottesville’s toppled Confederate monuments

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