Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape

How recent shifts in social politics have dramatically changed our relationship to monuments.

For centuries, monuments have telegraphed the values and origin myths of dominant culture in public space and on massive scale. They have signaled both who is part of a culture and who is not, often overlooking histories that complicate the stories they tell. Yet in the last 50 years in the United States, the role of monuments has changed significantly. Numerous historical monuments have been remove...