In Brief
A Prankster Put Googly Eyes on a US Revolutionary War Monument
"Who did this?!" the City of Savannah, Georgia decried on its Facebook page, to the amusement of thousands of commenters.
Monuments
News
Union at Cal State Long Beach Leaks Email from Fired Museum Director, Revealing Divisive Perspectives
The email, which the union cites as an example of Kimberli Meyer's "problematic management," discusses how the museum should address visitors to an exhibition on police violence.
Opinion
A Curator Reflects on Exhibiting Police Violence in University Art Museums
The recent "pause" on American Monument at CSU Long Beach, evoked another exhibition about police violence that took place almost two decades ago at another university art museum.
News
After Museum Director Is Fired, Artist Shuts Down Her Exhibition on Police Brutality [UPDATED]
The museum’s director Kimberli Meyer was fired days before the exhibition opened, a project that she had helped to spearhead.
Art
Six Strategies for Dealing with Controversial Monuments and Memorials
Communities across the nation (and even the world) have generally used the following options in dealing with contentious public monuments and memorials.
News
Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Enslaved Women Removed from Central Park
The monument to J. Marion Sims will eventually be installed, along with a display adding historical context, near his grave in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.
News
New York City Commission Opts to Keep Columbus Statue, But Under New Conditions
Officials have decided that only one statue will be moved: that of Dr. J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century gynecologist who experimented on female slaves without their consent.
Art
What a Year of Grief Taught Me About Monuments and Memorials
How personal loss, grieving, and memorialization can humanize and illuminate the controversies around monuments.
News
Over 120 Prominent Artists and Scholars Call on NYC to Take Down Racist Monuments
In a letter to the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, the signatories advocate for the removal of monuments to Christopher Columbus, J. Marion Sims, and Teddy Roosevelt.
News
Staten Islanders Defend Columbus at Final Hearing on NYC Monuments
During Tuesday's Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers hearing at Staten Island Borough Hall, speakers focused nearly exclusively on the Columbus Circle statue.
News
Calls to Take Down Columbus and J. Marion Sims Statues at Public Hearing on NYC Monuments
During a four-hour public hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, Central Park's Sims statue was universally reviled, while monuments to Columbus, Roosevelt, and others provoked mixed commentary.
News
US Civil Rights Sites and Aleppo’s Old Souk Among 25 Threatened Places Around the World
The World Monuments Fund announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.