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Artist and Iron Worker for NYC Department of Sanitation Unveils a COVID-19 Memorial

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 14, 2021June 14, 2021

“Forever Strongest” by Bernard Klevickas is slated to tour department garages throughout the summer before being permanently installed on Spring Street.

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Emmett Till Gets a Bulletproof Memorial

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber October 21, 2019October 22, 2019

The sign honoring the slain boy is the fourth to be built in just over a decade due to repeated acts of vandalism.

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The Artist Behind NYC’s New LGBTQ Monument Hopes “the Gay Community Can See Itself Reflected”

Avatar photo by Zachary Small July 5, 2017July 5, 2017

Anthony Goicolea, the selected artist to design the state’s official monument honoring the LGBTQ community, speaks about his proposed memorial and the logistics of a public art project.

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Memorial Portraits Made with the Subjects’ Ashes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 20, 2017March 20, 2017

After the loss of her father and a close friend, Heide Hatry began making portraits where her subjects’ faces are delicately recreated with their own cremated remains.

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An Artist’s Sticky-Note Project Spreads Post-Election Solidarity

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 14, 2016November 14, 2016

Thousands of sticky-note messages have accumulated in the New York City subway, a moment of post-election solidarity evolved from artist Matthew Chavez’s Subway Therapy project.

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A Sinking Cherry Grove Portends a Future of Rising Tides

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 28, 2016September 27, 2016

With each foot of sea level rise, four lines of cherry trees at the Climate Chronograph die.

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Marking an Artist’s Forgotten Grave with His Own Sculpture of Death

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 29, 2016June 29, 2016

The unmarked grave of 19th-century artist Thomas Crawford will soon be commemorated with the installation of one of his own sculptures at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 10, 2016May 11, 2016

A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they’ve long been deprived of: visibility.

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Could NYC’s Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 1, 2016February 1, 2016

Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers are buried in trenches dug deep in the soil of Hart Island, a sliver of forgotten land in the Long Island Sound off the eastern shore of the Bronx.

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Archeologists Discover 400-Year-Old Hearts in Lead Boxes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 11, 2015December 21, 2015

Five heart-shaped lead boxes dating to the 16th and 17th centuries were exhumed from the basement of the Convent of the Jacobins in Rennes, France.

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Uffizi Gallery Opens Exhibition Inside Mafia Boss’s Former House

by Laura C. Mallonee May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss’s former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery.

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Philanthropist and Jury Clash Over Design of Controversial Warsaw Memorial

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 8, 2015May 10, 2015

A controversial competition to build a monument in Warsaw to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust just got a little more controversial after the founder of the organization behind the project denounced the winning design.

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