In Germany, two vastly different approaches to public and memorial art are underscoring some of the tensions currently unfolding in the country today.
Tag: Memorials
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Letting Go of Our Obsession with Memorials
Over the past 50 years we have encountered the incentive to value every material trace of the past more and more, like we are a society with collective hoarding anxiety.
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Florida Man Calls for Replacing Confederate Monument with Manatee Memorial
A denizen of Bradenton is petitioning the city to replace a memorial to Confederate soldiers with one for the beloved, recently deceased Snooty.
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Typo on Indiana Monument Honors Soldiers in the War on “Terriorism”
Mysteriously, no mention is made of those lost in the “War on Rugs.”
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In Minnesota, Listening to Native Perspectives on Memorializing the Dakota War
The outcry over Sam Durant’s sculpture at the Walker Art Center has provoked reflections on past memorials for the US–Dakota War, and how Dakota Nation voices continue to be ignored.
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Six Years After the Christchurch Earthquake, a Homegrown Memorial Faces an Uncertain Future
As the official memorial to victims of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake is unveiled, an unofficial but beloved installation commemorating the dead remains in limbo.
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The Story of Norway’s Multiple July 22 Memorials
Jonas Dahlberg’s “Memory Wound” has been in the international spotlight, but two other memorials commemorate Anders Behring Breivik’s 2011 massacre in different, subtler ways.
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A Tour of Meownuments to the World’s Most Pawesome Cats
Istanbul unveiled a tribute to its local beloved feline this week, but it’s hardly the first time a cat has been immortalized in bronze.
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Saying Goodbye to Tamir Rice’s Gazebo
CLEVELAND — Shingle by shingle, a crew of workers began the three-day process of taking apart the gazebo at the Cudell Recreation Center where sixth grader Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police within two seconds of their arrival.
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A Symbolic Wound Takes Shape in Norway to Remember the 2011 Massacre
It has been exactly five years since Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway.
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Michael Brown’s Google Earth Memorial
On August 4, Jessica Lussenhop (@Lussenpop) posted an image culled from Google Earth of the memorial for Michael Brown, the teenager shot to death by the former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
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#BlackLivesMatter Protesters Target Confederate Monuments
Yesterday, officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found a statue commemorating Civil War Confederate veterans spray-painted with the words “Murderer,” “KKK,” and “BLACK LIVES MATTER.”