Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever

Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.

Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever
Kara Walker, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant" (2014), polystyrene foam and sugar (artwork © Kara Walker, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and Sprüth Magers; photo Jason Wyche)