“They were the first part of the battle, and they would be the third part. We’ll talk about it in a bit, but right now let’s go see that monument to our people. How’s that?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Entering the monument, they were taken to a small room where Interior Secretary Ickes was waiting. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There’d be little villages with streams going through them, white monuments on hillsides, old churches beside fields; if she was telling us about a coastal place, there’d be beaches crowded with people, cliffs with seagulls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

An explosion goes off right above a monument near us, rocketing us all apart. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl nipped nimbly round the lions at the base of the monument and joined in the rush. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these projects acquired construction materials by cannibalizing old monuments, thereby hastening the process of creating ruins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A hub of hydrogen bomb research, the Livermore National Laboratory would be Ernest Lawrence’s final monument. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Someday, I’m going to see it in person. I’m going to build the greatest monument to the gods, ever. Something that’ll last a thousand years.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur Ashe left an enduring monument in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men who peopled the grill in the early hours of morning were not just regulars to the restaurant, they were regulars to the town and their family names were on street signs and monuments. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even today these megalithic monuments have an awe-inspiring, superhuman air about them, as if they were the work of a forgotten race of giants. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the monument’s white marble steps and stood in front of the imposing, seated figure of Abraham Lincoln. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, far over to the right, he saw a tall monument, once no doubt imposing but now tipped slightly sidewise. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, he knew Mohammed only through stories, photos, and tributes, and the monument to him that stood on the waterfront in Jableh, just down the street from their home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The monuments look carved from the wind, hunched and holed and weathered, translucent, and stretch as far as the eye can see. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This monument was round and sunk into the ground. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the distance, floodlights began to light up the monuments and buildings of Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the Fickle Fountain, an elaborately carved monument that occasionally spat out water in which young children played. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thousands of protesters gathered at the base of the monument, many waving banners with antiwar slogans. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The moment was suddenly at hand not only to make ungodly sums of money but to build an empire, a lasting monument. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ducked under a pine-branch and loped around the hill, on the paths when it suited him, off the paths, jumping from monument to stone, when that was quicker. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The “earth art” of the prehistoric Indians of North America, the so-called Mound Builders, is comparable to the megalithic monuments of Europe in terms of the effort involved. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found beautiful fountains and huge monuments by accident. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"White! It's the purest white that can be found. Nobody makes a paint any whiter. This batch right here is heading for a national monument!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had domes and columned porticoes, like national monuments. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Secretary Baker was making his first visit to see this crumbled monument to Soviet communism. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the wavering firelight Gandalf seemed suddenly to grow: he rose up, a great menacing shape like the monument of some ancient king of stone set upon a hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

An arrow on the edge of my map pointed south to Katahdin Iron Works, site of an improbable nineteenth-century factory in the woods and now a state historical monument. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a shame we couldn’t work together. You two will make lovely monuments to my triumph, though. Are you ready?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jimmy and his grandfather followed the path to the monument to the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Below the tall monument were more headstones—those inside the black iron fence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A long time dead but living still among the other soldiers on that monument in Washington, D.C. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The words on that monument said there were no survivors. That means that all the soldiers were killed, right?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Palms and cedars grew along the cobbled road, and monuments stood at every junction. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The last room was another monument left by former miners in Wieliczka’s happier past. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

When the bombing occurred, Hale had been in Texas, and he now saw the charred detritus of the house, which resembled a wreckage of war—“a horrible monument,” as one investigator called it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This strategy was partly successful in Mutal—not a single dated monument was erected in the city for a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From an engineering standpoint, clay should never be selected as the bearing material for a big earthen monument. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They got out of the truck and walked to the monuments. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a sturdy and complex monument to his towers of determination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1980, Maya Lin was a senior at Yale University, taking a class on funereal architecture, studying how cemeteries and monuments reflect attitudes toward death. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the girl standing at the base of the monument, reading or pretending to read a poster which ran spirally up the column. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I would use the excuse that the monument was being built, and the noise and dust and activity bothered me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king's father looked around, aghast, but only the lifeless stone Bauxi, held down by the monument as if pinned by a needle, remained. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He argued that Chicago’s fair, unlike any other before it, would be primarily a monument to architecture. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were twelve thick granite panels on the walls inside the circular monument. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Harry S Truman High School, set on a slight incline, is a monument to utility, neither inviting nor forbidding. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“A chamberpot? Your father’s sweat and blood is a chamberpot? I see your motive. Destroy the last monument to your father’s accomplishments.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he found himself among monuments and cannon and rolling hills. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leon Levy could have named his monument “Levy Trousers.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few times, even, flowery bouquets had been laid at these contemptible monuments commemorating a death or deaths which had not yet occurred. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted white granite to match the Lincoln and Washington monuments. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He’s standing on top of the ice monument, clad in the same fitted black armor I’d seen on him in the Dark World. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marble monuments graced the wide streets of Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We went outside and stood on the stairs of the monument and held hands facing the city, facing the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was no longer any monument to her disgrace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the hilltop to the right was an older monument. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every Christmas since, she sent my parents a gift box containing hot sauce, a flowering cactus, and a photograph of Mrs. Watson and herself in front of some national monument. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Emma was eager to see the stone monuments and the Cathedral Church at nearby Salisbury. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their luxurious accommodations, they could take in fabulous sights as they passed the ancient ruins and famous monuments of Egyptian culture, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The light in this level is changing; the ice monuments are lit with golden rays and dragging long shadows across the glaciers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then Blackjack took off, circling twice around the monument before disappearing into the clouds. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Look on that, mouse, ” said Gregory “That is a monument to the foolishness of love. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The earliest arrivals found places as close as possible to the steps of the great marble monument. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Modern drawings of ancient cities tend to show them at an imagined apogee, the great monuments all splendidly arrayed together, perfect as architectural models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few men are seated with their sleeves rolled up, washing their arms and feet, and it suddenly occurs to me that the ancient mosque isn’t a museum or monument. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In a photo I have of the day our new president came to visit the monument, I’m standing in front of the house, all made up, my hair in a bouffant style. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just a pity that a bee got under Miss Love’s dust veil about time she crept the car around the Confederate monument. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Styx laughed the first time he saw our odd little Grasshopper monument. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s ripe hazel-nuts in the thicket just beyond the Littlejohns’ monument,” said Tom with a smile, as if softening a blow. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It’s difficult to describe it without lapsing into poor taste; indeed, the truck and trailer alone were a monument to the word “god-awful.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Enormous ice monuments tower in the landscape, erupting from the glacier at random intervals. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She shows me a stone monument, like a proud claim staked upon the humble chapel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

People still lived there, but the towns dispersed into the countryside; pottery making, stela carving, and monument building ceased. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The monument closest to you. See the Lightning power-up? Get your hands on it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every day the remarkable edifice served as a monument to her profound change in circumstances. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Visitors from the Shang Dynasty are said to have crossed the Pacific to teach the ancient Olmec how to write, build monuments, and worship a feline god. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finn froze up like a monument to cowards everywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The US Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the White House. Did you know that plans for a monument started before Washington was elected president?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Listen, Elly, if we go round to those steps over there, under the monument, I can kiss you." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Zizmo drives through the gloom, past the octagonal gazebos and the monument of the Civil War Hero, and into the woods where the Ottawa once held their summer camp. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“But why have me carve these? They are not stones for a monument. This is very common stone, to be placed someplace humble—like a country road or a wall.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he saw this photo, and so many others of Ahmad standing in front of this city or that monument, Zeitoun always thought of the people Ahmad had asked to take the pictures. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We all saw the landing on television when it happened, though, and for a school project in eighth grade I drew the monument that was built there on Wrigley Field. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The black hulks of the broken ships stood out in the sun, looming monuments to a world that had fallen apart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Colder,” she said again in Washington, D.C., despite the cherry-blossom promises, despite the white stone monuments hoarding winter light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of what remains are texts on monuments, murals, and pottery—about fifteen thousand samples of writing, according to one estimate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dozens of colorful power-ups pop up around the level, suspended in the air and over the monuments and down on the ground. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later, in the middle of Mr. Fabian’s textbook voice reading about historical monuments in Washington, DC, Jax shouts, “It’s snowing harder!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered the huge white monuments poking up above the heads around me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

If the Adams brand of statesmanship was now an anachronism—and it was—then the Adams presidency would serve as a fitting monument to its passing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her belly button protruded from her satiated satin stomach like a domed monument on a hill. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew continued reading the inscription aloud as Emily circled the monument, examining it more closely. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and saw a big, lathered-up mongrel cornering a little black kid of about five or six against the monument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Near the tall stone monument were some large rocks. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here the Continental Army had suffered through a winter of their own, and the vast, stark, frozen desolation itself seemed a more proper monument than statues and stones. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incensed local lawmakers responded with monuments to legislative creativity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not only a famous monument. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a tall, upright monument made of stones. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Along-side the procession, slaves ran lightly through the grass with torches in their hands, and the flickering flames made the great monuments seem almost alive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This monument is in honor of the South African War, ninety years ago, more or less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They drove into the parking spot near the large stone monument. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I turned back and took another long look around the room, surveying the long line of monuments to the history of computing and videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Public buildings, statues, monuments, even trees, met the evening in their original bland colors and reemerged the next morning painted in the sparkling “liberation colors” of red, black, and green. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The serpent was more than a creature; it seemed like a living monument, as eternal and elemental as a mountain range. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If there was any justice, the scene would be carved into a monument of demonglass and placed here to commemorate the salvation of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Clouds, which had shadowed the monument, skittered away to the north, and the late-afternoon sun broke through to bathe the reflecting pool and shine on the gaily dressed Easter crowd. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Granted, no great capital is just the sum of her institutions and monuments. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“It killed Scarlet. He’s made it like...like a monument. A memorial for her.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Below the monument were white headstones inside a black iron fence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

For a long time I stood gazing at the monument. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Siberian city had several huge public buildings, monuments from World War II, a reputable university and medical school, and some factories that provided decent jobs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

To this day it stands as a monument to the ability of propaganda to foster absolute power and to justify unfettered hatred. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Silently, Brangwain Spurge stared at each monument and temple as if committing them to memory. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He cut her again and again, into a plunging gallop, while Ben’s hoarse agony roared about them, and swung her about to the right of the monument. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler, the women whisper, is touring Parisian monuments. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I was in no way prepared for the massive skyscrapers, gorgeous beachside drives, and awesome monuments I saw on our initial trip in the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Such was Woundwort’s monument: and perhaps it would not have displeased him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as for the enormous peach stone—it was set up permanently in a place of honor in Central Park and became a famous monument. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t remember anything since the Minotaur, and couldn’t believe it when Gabe told her I was a wanted criminal, traveling across the country, blowing up national monuments. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A chorten is a religious monument, usually made of rock and often containing sacred relics; it is also called a stupa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, children wore heavy, practical shoes that felt like they would outlast a steel monument, so whenever you could go barefoot, you appreciated it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” said Kojo, peering out a window at all the glistening monuments and buildings below. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Because of erosion on the Earth, our monuments and artifacts will not, in the natural course of things, survive to the distant future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was standing around the monument reading the passages on the wall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Whether a monument such as this should be termed architecture is a matter of definition. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hill that the monument was on was known as Last Stand Hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In June 1877, he and Emma, along with Frank, Bernard, and the baby’s nursemaid, made a pilgrimage to the great prehistoric monument Stonehenge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gleaming shrines and monuments on Temple Hill crumbled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our very own Miss New Jersey is going to show us around all of the famous Miss America monuments. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the way home, I spotted this banged-up wooden sled kind of propped up against the Old Indian Rock monument. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"There is a grand monument I had made," the father said, leading them to a massive stone placard. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day perhaps the city returns and rips out the sore and builds a monument to its past. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flush with wealth, Tiwanaku city swelled into a marvel of terraced pyramids and grand monuments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Brandenburg Gate, a monument to the city's former greatness, still stood in the middle of the city, in the midst of a no-man's-land between East and West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Luster hit Queenie again and swung her to the left at the monument. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white landscape rushes past me, and the ice monuments loom close. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was cold outside, and dark, and a leaky, insipid mist lay swollen in the air and trickled down the large, unpolished stone blocks of the houses and the pedestals of monuments. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Although some ferns had overgrown the outer ring of rocks, our monument was still standing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Something’s the matter with Tom. He’s moping around like a monument.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Were the Siriono like contemporary Italians living among the monuments of the Roman Empire? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As her litter passed beneath the stolen monuments, she went from sunlight to shadow and back again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Matthew continued reading the inscription aloud as Emily circled the monument, examining it more closely. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jimmy saw the low stone monument where Crazy Horse had been wounded. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Here were people who made a living pitching tents or lying in a fetal position before our national monuments. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The paved road passed between the monuments and turned south. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He drove his Bronco in pitch darkness across the Potomac and through Antietam National Battlefield, a broad ridge of cornfields and farmland scattered with stone monuments to the dead. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In point of fact, we have no solid evidence the Great Library was a monument distinct from the Museum. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Why are there no monuments to this man? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, some guy in cargo pants was caught tipping over one of the monument’s pillars. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, many of the ancient groves have been lumbered off, but many of the stately monuments remain and will remain, for a good and interesting reason. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hope to erect a permanent “monument to justice,” not eradicating the past but amending it. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Built atop a promontory, just north of the marble monument, and down a grand staircase is a charming, formal, amphitheatre-like terrace. On paying for it: Ten cents a dance (adjusted for inflation) 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

But so does her father — the emotionally remote “national monument,” as she calls him, who set the stage for his daughter’s agonizing doubt about her body and abilities. Jane Fonda Isn’t Letting the Curtain Come Down Any Time Soon 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

But recent additions like the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center prove that this city in the heart of the Mediterranean isn’t afraid to raise new monuments and leave a bold statement for posterity. 36 Hours in Athens 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

This was the case with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic,” a monument of 19th-century American painting that belonged to a small Philadelphia medical college. Kerry James Marshall Paints for Chicago. His Mural Should Stay There. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The hut, whose construction in 1989 was due largely to the efforts of his brother, Fred, is a kind of monument to him. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z

James Earl Jones recorded a new introduction to the painting, which was once again seen not as a Confederate monument but as a tribute to the right side of history. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

In “The Neutral Ground,” “Daily Show” producer CJ Hunt explores debate over Confederate monuments through the lens of Reconstruction-era myths that still govern modern-day narratives about racism and slavery. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Olivia Harrison reportedly said that instead of a bronze monument to the late Beatle, she would prefer a community project founded in his name. George Harrison statue campaign halted in favour of community project 2013-01-14T10:52:42Z

Gamers finally grasp their moment of glory at the climactic Washington, D.C., showdown, during which agitators currently arguing for the defacement or destruction of certain honorific monuments will no doubt feel a charge of excitement. Review: 'Pixels' Is Fun — for a Bit 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

I don't want to be like Henry Moore," he said, "just making big monuments for public spaces, like the one beside the Met on the piazza over there. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z

And, she said, “It opens up the ability to mess with the monuments every four years, or based on a political environment, and that is no way to build an economy.” At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“It was never just about the monument. We have always been of the opinion that removing the monument is not enough if the systems are still in place” that contribute to white supremacy. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Its architectural legacy lives on in the southwestern state of Karnataka with over 1,000 well-preserved stone monuments, including Hindu temples, forts and palaces. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Others venture farther afield: The Utah Symphony will tour state parks and monuments next month. Hell or High Water, an Orchestra Celebrates the Erie Canal 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

He shot her as a monument, in every corner of the city. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

A monument to history and place standing firm against titanic winds. How Does a New Yawker Tawk? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

There’s sweet relief in their being set free, at last, to adorn that monument with some choice graffiti. Review: In ‘Wives,’ the Other Halves Have Their Say 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

A common refrain today among supporters of Confederate monuments is that they represent history and not racism. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The bricks are designed to “construct a monument to impermanence,” according to the artist's explanatory note. Scene in/ Seen in ...: In Spain, Bifurcation at the Biennale 2010-10-22T12:30:00Z

On Governors Island, tours remain canceled and two historical monuments — Castle Williams and Fort Jay — are closed. Summertime in the (Partly Reopened) City 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

The Littoral Arts Trust is hoping to raise £30,000 for the monument. 'Degenerate art' memorial planned 2012-10-19T11:13:05Z

His son Philip III ordered the construction of stone ramparts to completely encircle the town, and today these formidable fortifications are a French national historic monument. France’s Chicest Hotel Family Has Come to Languedoc. Is That a Good Thing? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Throughout the country, there are hundreds of monuments to the Confederacy; there are fewer than 20 monuments to black women, said Duster, a writer and lecturer at Columbia College in Chicago. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The city said there would be an open call this week for artists interested in designing the monument. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

I showed him all the monuments on my grandfather; he showed me pits of where Jews were buried because of my grandfather. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

This week features a visit to see some presidents, the first national park, the first national monument and the birthplace of modern rock climbing. KidsPost readers take a walk in the park 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

There will always be certain paintings or monuments that travelers feel they must see, regardless of crowds or lack of time. The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Two Women Running On the Beach, painted in the summer of 1922, is a monument to the new freedoms that swept the world after the first world war. Picasso and beach culture: a cocktail of sand and sensuality 2011-08-18T14:36:21Z

It is a singular item, a kind of edible monument to Corona, and if you finish one it may be a long time before you can stand. Flavors from the Ecuadorean Andes and a Friendly Wave to Mexico, at Leticias 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

But he preferred everyday buildings to the city’s most-pictured landmarks, painting gardens, pump houses and food trucks as well as monuments. Artist remakes useless stuff into, well, it’s anyone’s guess 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

A day-and-a-half of paddling brings us to the Bridge to Nowhere, a monument to the failed hopes of settlers. Mystic river: Canoeing a living entity in New Zealand 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Erin Carlson Mast, the cottage’s executive director, says last year 30,000 people visited the house, which is the only national monument that doesn’t receive federal operating support. History sits quietly on a hilltop in D.C.’s Petworth area 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

I asked him how to access the grounds of the 704,000-acre national monument, which is roughly twice the size of Los Angeles. At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

The application is by far the most elaborate on the list, and drew from reports by hundreds of experts who studied particular snippets of the road network or associated monuments in the various countries. Protection Sought for Vast and Ancient Incan Road 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

This simple but solemn cemetery is a national and historical monument to some of the young men and women who lost their lives defending France. Her uncle died with the French Resistance, and she had to visit the spot 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

“These projects are positive spins on the social injustice, monument discussion happening in our country,” said Jeanne Cyriaque, a cultural heritage consultant for the Georgia Department of Economic Development. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Ozone pollution from such energy development already exceeds federal Clean Air Act limits in the monument area. Drilling Near Dinosaur National Monument Draws Criticism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Set for completion next year, the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion claims to be the largest stupa, or Buddhist monument, in the Western world. A Cultural Escape North of Melbourne 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

And announced that new eras require new monuments. Chris Burden's architectural intelligence 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

The bus, outfitted like a trolley, will wind past tall monuments and statues as well as tombs that usually go unnoticed. Green-Wood Cemetery, Where Presidential Aspirants Enjoy an Afterlife 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The monument, in that case, was the self-created work of art known as Mae West, the screen’s shapely queen of sexual innuendo from the 1930s. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

The second museum or third monument of the day? How to Up the Spontaneity Quotient on Your Next Trip 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Less an exercise in outsider exoticism than a monument to national pride, “Shiraz” invents an imaginary back story for the 17th-century empress whose death inspired her husband to commission the world’s most celebrated mausoleum. ‘Shiraz,’ a Silent Spectacle of India, Returns 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

“It’s just such an awful building that the only reason to keep it would be as a monument to stupidity,” said Mark Wigley, the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Javits Center Plans Are Deflating for Architects 2012-01-22T21:28:52Z

He erects monuments to himself in major cities. Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

The monuments, symbols, and famous people splashed on them help reinforce this sense of nationhood. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

This collaboration looks like a win-win situation for a city drowning in historical monuments yet stretched for funds. Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld to Aid Rome’s Fountains 2013-06-03T10:03:39Z

Critics say the shift is emblematic of changes that will affect a wide range of other parks and monuments, as well as those who visit them. Drilling Near Dinosaur National Monument Draws Criticism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Last year, the monument drew about 140,000 visitors, said Patrick Tyler, the chief of visitor services. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. Neighbors thought they witnessed a tragedy. Then a sign appeared: ‘You Saved My Life!’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Also, Japanese temples and cemeteries have fewer restrictions than U.S. cemeteries do on monuments. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z

On Christmas Day tourists found small fragments of tufo, the porous rock typical of ancient Roman monuments, on the ground. ArtsBeat Blog: Colosseum May Be a Fixer-Upper but It's Not Collapsing, Italian Officials Say 2011-12-28T14:35:40Z

Fortunately for posterity, he wasn’t entirely successful: France is also full of American World War I monuments. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Noah asked Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” to share his take on the recent protests by white nationalists and other far-right groups against the removal of Confederate monuments. Trump Looks Directly at the Eclipse, and Conan O’Brien Spies an Opening 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

The Venetian artist said he was considering whether to use the format for other landmark monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids or the Great Wall of China. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpieces beamed to Rome theater 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

The statue of the boy was probably a funerary monument, a detail that dissolves his petulance into our pity. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The mural was one of the first projects to receive funding from the monument project of the Mellon Foundation. A Judy Baca Moment: ‘My Work Has Been Good for a Long Time’ 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Another nearby monument to Mr. Malevich, put up in 1988, is now also on the grounds of a gated community. ArtsBeat: Malevich’s Burial Site Is Found, Underneath Housing Development 2013-08-30T21:21:40Z

We will now map this monument using an array of technologies that will allow us to view this new discovery, and the landscape around it, in three dimensions. Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away 2010-07-22T09:52:00Z

And there is a monument of elephants' tusks to the 22 Ugandan martyrs who died for their faith in the 1880s. New Rome museum celebrates Catholicism's global mission 2011-01-02T17:24:48Z

It's also a comment on the fact that we are still making war monuments, which I find rather tacky. Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth faces huge cock up 2010-08-19T14:10:00Z

Candles glow from recesses in the walls of this elegant, clean-lined set — a classically contemplative monument to democracy, and the shell for Mr. Nelson’s memorial to Socrates. Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s the European Year of Cultural Heritage, an ongoing celebration across multiple countries that includes museum exhibitions; tours of gardens and monuments; theater, dance and musical performances; and the reappearance of many long-running annual festivals. A Year of Cultural Celebrations in Europe 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

We should not place too much emphasis on our ignorance about the monument, she said. Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery? 2013-03-16T13:49:02Z

Stories like this stand in relief against calls for removing controversial monuments. Placing Women on a Different Sort of Pedestal 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

The main role of the department was to identify, preserve and if necessary restore historic "monuments" that seemed to be under threat. Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review 2013-06-20T10:01:01Z

Collection of 18th- and 19th-century buildings, including a debtors prison, courthouse and a Confederate monument. A Father-Son Fishing Trip on the Chesapeake Bay 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

“She called herself an old monument and a lot of Afghans called her the ‘Grandmother of Afghanistan,'” said Wahid Wafa, Executive Director of the Afghanistan Centre. Nancy Hatch Dupree 'Grandmother of Afghanistan' dies in Kabul 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

“The things that they thought were monuments, which were the houses they built and spent a fortune on, were torn down in 60 years in many cases,” he said. More than a statue: Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Nearly every skyscraper in New York is a monument to the wealth and power the city has created over hundreds of years and Hudson Yards is no exception nor anything new. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

A country in miniature, Portugal Bored with all that pesky sightseeing, those endless historical monuments, the dull drag of yet another rococo cathedral altar? 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The city brought the idea for the monument to the center earlier this year and gained its support. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

This monument, called “The Battle of Atlanta,” is different from many of the others. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

This black, twisted monument to poverty, catastrophe and despair stands out surreally on the landscape. Film review: Winter's Bone 2010-09-16T21:42:00Z

Lebanon’s summer music festivals, set against the backdrop of its most impressive monuments like the Roman temples at Baalbak and the Crusader castle of Byblos, are an important feature in the country, Nora Jumblatt said. Descendent of Arab musical legend brings nostalgia to Lebanese... 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

For some historians, the creation of the Reconstruction monument, by the nation’s first African-American president, represents a particularly sweet symbolic victory. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Famed for hiking and its fossils of Miocene mammals, the Agate Fossil Beds national monument is planning several free events. 10 of the best views, festivals and events for the US total solar eclipse 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

There really should be a national monument for these veteran rockers – something like Mount Rushmore. At last – I get to see the Rolling Stones 2013-07-09T10:51:00Z

Of all the monuments to the Alice books, the finest has long been one of the best literary pas de deux in English, Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice.” Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Carson Daly opens “The Voice” from an empty set, the trademark red judges’ chairs sitting like abandoned monuments, and refers vaguely to “Everything that’s been going on.” Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The monument will be unveiled Thursday in Kensington Palace, the royals’ childhood home. Prince Harry pays surprise visit to London charity event 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mayor Rudy Clay said Wednesday that Jackson's mother Katherine would unveil a monument to her son in front of the small house where the Jackson 5 singing brothers were raised. LA cemetery welcomes Michael Jackson fans, bans doves 2010-06-23T21:29:00Z

It also threatens to demolish the mosques themselves if they contain monuments to saints. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z

Other monuments in the historic Roman center World Heritage site include the Forums, the mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Pantheon, Trajan’s Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius. Irish tourist caught defacing Colosseum in Rome 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

The monument is not only an important part of Rome’s physical history but also “very significant for the Jewish community,” she said. Menorah on Arch of Titus in Roman Forum Was Rich Yellow 2012-06-24T21:51:19Z

Dharma bumming her way around Asia and California, historian Bettany Hughes sets herself the ambitious task of showing off Buddhism's most spectacular monuments and exploring its central tenets. TV highlights 24/08/2011: 2011-08-23T22:00:00Z

Though I didn’t find the monuments inspiring — the Pyramids looked like stage flats against the searing-blue sky — others did. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gagosian said he considered “The Lightning Field” a monument for a new age and a new audience. Inside Art: ‘Lightning Field’ Restoration Campaign Is Set 2012-06-07T21:16:04Z

As an artist who has designed other pieces for public spaces throughout the country, can you say what makes a monument worthy of public art? Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

But at least one new public sculpture was also notable this year: a rendering, in bronze, of two young women and a smartphone, which might be the first public monument to selfie culture. The Year in Nine Objects 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Our international travelers brought KidsPost along this summer to see wildlife, climb mountains and visit monuments. Summer of KidsPost spotlights readers’ travels to other countries 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Is the Eisenhower Memorial the last “great man” monument in Washington? Review | Planet Word, a new museum devoted to language, is a high-tech, feel-good experience 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The Jogger careened around them as we dodged frail memorials and toppled monuments. Father's Day, every day, with my disabled son 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

And yet her tiered confection is a small marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their plans dissolve in dust. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

There are almost no scenes that involve Green directly planning and executing his most lasting monuments. This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zinke's final report to the president, released this week, included vague language about prioritizing public access and increasing logging in the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

But as the rest of the fountain was checked for crumbling stucco, Italy's Green party launched a campaign against what it described as dangerous cuts to the funding to maintain Rome's monuments. Rome's Trevi fountain crumbling 'for lack of maintenance' 2012-06-11T15:24:29Z

According to Norman Foster, the city of Brasilia, for which Niemeyer designed the most significant monuments, "is not simply designed, it is choreographed". Oscar Niemeyer: an appreciation 2012-12-09T00:06:19Z

His series on the Richmond monuments scrambles the image of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders, dissecting the smooth statuary into phantom horsemen with many patterns and textures. This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

But he agreed that regular maintenance was key to keeping monuments from falling over. Rome's Trevi fountain crumbling 'for lack of maintenance' 2012-06-11T15:24:29Z

Mr. Hersey, in his 1843 journal, described himself as “slightly skilled in the art of flowering; that is drawing and painting upon bone; steam boats, flower pots, monuments, balloons, landscapes &c.” In Maritime Logbooks, a Trove of ‘Extraordinary’ Imagery 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

And the real question is, what’s the correct — meaning useful — response to the monument’s image of an egregious racial power dynamic? We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. de Blasio ordered a review of New York’s own monuments, while also beginning the process of creating new ones that better reflected the city’s population. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Most of the monument is administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management, an agency that Sally Jewell, the secretary of the interior in the Obama administration, characterized as overextended and underfunded. At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The mazelike interior walls — a monument to medieval paranoia designed to keep invaders from reaching the court’s inner sanctum — were cleared of rubble. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z

Many of those pieces of art remain in disrepair, such as the monument to the uprising against fascism in Petrova Gora in Croatia. Yugoslavia's brutalist relics fascinate the Instagram generation 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

And an area outfitter, the REI Co-Op, organizes sunset kayak trips to review the national monuments at golden dusk. In D.C., Trading Politics for a Paddle 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Also included is the June 4, 1945, Orders for Rosenthal and de Weldon to report to the White House to present a model of the monument to President Harry S. Truman. Original Iwo Jima monument coming to NYC auction 2013-02-08T12:27:08Z

From its 18th-century origins as a marketplace, the Bourse went through many incarnations of form and use, including futures trading, but in 1998, the computerization of the futures market left the monument without a use. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

These are funerary monuments, called stupas, reminders of his death and what happened after. Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society 2010-03-18T23:04:00Z

Katz considers the accuracy of those images through on-the-spot comparisons: He photographs himself holding up the illustrator’s images in front of the Maya monuments they depict. Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The monuments represent the less organic — or more masculine — aspect of Colón’s art. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

They chose to live in the District, Damad says, because it was “like our home” — thick with monuments and with a skyline that seems to bow to history. What happens when the country you called home is suddenly off-limits 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the first edition of the theme park’s printed paper Ghost Town News in October 1941 explained, “ . . . we hope it will prove of real tangible educational advantage and a lasting monument to California.” Old West theme parks paint a false picture of pioneer California 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Joyce lived through revolutionary times and, in order to create that monument, stayed away from those revolutions, left them out, and instead, accomplished a revolution in literary form. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

This kind of disparity persisted in death, when many monuments to the dead didn't include crew members, such as stokers and busboys. 'Titanic Tragedy': what went down with the ship 2012-04-05T18:16:55Z

Meanwhile, Fischer punted the idea of the statue's removal through a series of city-organized panels and monument committees. Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue can finally be removed after 5 years of protests, court rules 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

It has been almost 20 years since Ms. Wegener worked as an arts, monuments and archives officer in Baghdad as part of a very small team. The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Those were also expressed through new public monuments, including humorously near-identical equestrian statuary. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Thus far, Mr. Zinke has officially recommended that no modifications be made to three monuments: Canyons of the Ancients, in Colorado, Craters of the Moon, in Idaho, and Hanford Reach, in Washington. A Call to Activism for Outdoor Apparel Makers 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The result, in “Chinese Silks,” is book as monument. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

There is a lot at stake here: taxpayers paid approximately $40 million in the last decade for the upkeep of Confederate monuments alone; Monument Lab posted a map showing their locations. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

A monument to journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was unveiled Wednesday in Chicago. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Their grave markers have vanished, and the most prominent monument there now is a plain stone tomb for George Hibbert, a slaveholder at Jamaica sugar plantations. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z

He is "the poetic soul of discretion and a monument to artistry in America," Shatner once said. Radio giant Norman Corwin dies in Calif. at 101 2011-10-19T03:46:08Z

The trail I chose, the Homestead-Blue Ridge Loop, is considered the gateway to the national monument. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Claes Oldenburg hired gravediggers to excavate and refill a hole in it, to form an “invisible monument.” Tatiana Trouvé Unwinds History in Public Art Project 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Take, for instance, their fight against Ten Commandments monuments on state property in Oklahoma and, more recently, Arkansas. Can the Satanic Temple survive its “civil war”? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

But now, people have also decided it's a great idea to monument us in addition to making empty statements about our lives mattering. Monuments to Black lives have no value without justice and meaningful change 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

The veterans aboard the flight are now spending five days in D.C., touring national monuments and viewing their respective war memorials, the latter of which they’re all doing for the first time. Alaska Airlines debuts military-themed aircraft ahead of Honor Flight to DC 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

In Germany, monuments like the Palast der Republik, whose government offices, restaurants and nightclubs were once the social heart of East Berlin, became shorthand for a period many West Germans wanted to forget. An Alarmed Architect?s Complaint: Preservation Distorts the Past 2011-05-23T12:01:01Z

Postcards of famous monuments, famous museums, famous mosques, famous mountains, famous red phone booths. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z

Classified as a historical monument, it’s considered a modernist icon. Under quarantine, we rediscovered our Paris neighborhood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The seven of these that are now on display at the American Folk Art Museum don’t look like monuments to human misery. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Seems this is a monument to money laundering and tax abatement. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

She made a bronze monument of Harriet Tubman that presides over a traffic island at 122nd Street in Harlem. Alison Saar on Transforming Outrage Into Art 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Writing about architecture meant writing about life down to the corner and the curb — buildings are lived in, after all, not just sculptures or monuments on a skyline. An Appraisal: Ada Louise Huxtable, Appraisal of an Architecture Critic 2013-01-08T18:30:38Z

Rome By Aryn Baker It's a pity that Rome's great monuments and museums sometimes eclipse the delights of its everyday life. Next Time You're in ... Rome 2010-03-04T05:35:00Z

“My marriage lasted twice as long as the Confederacy, and I’ve already taken down all the monuments,” she recently tweeted. The Nudes Aren’t Going Away. Katie Hill’s OK With That. 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

Crushed auto parts swallowed in sludge, funeral barges, drawings of decayed factories and decomposed humanity, monuments to rebirth, open sewers flowing with feces — these and more are on display. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

Others, however, defended the tribute and rallied to keep the monument in place, with some wanting deeper context and understanding around it. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

We drove south to Salvation Mountain, one man’s remote, paint-drenched monument to God in the Colorado Desert. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

President Trump signed the lands bill in March, conserving millions of additional acres of wilderness, expanding national parks and creating new national monuments. How Congress nearly ruined a man’s quest to visit all national park sites in one trip 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

A group of unidentified artists revealed the monument at the Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, according to published reports. Edward Snowden monument unveiled, then covered up, in Brooklyn park 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Used to receive students, they are a monument to his simplicity – more monk's cell than prince's palace. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

Ephemeral and imposing at the same time, the gestures suggest the pillars of a monument. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The Cottonwood Canyon Road through this national monument was a notorious Trek shortcut back in the day: stunningly beautiful, but also a bit of a gamble. Take a road trip to Utah’s Red Rock Country 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The Dakota people basically saw something that looked like a monument to their massacre....As one person said to me, ‘That's a killing machine.’ Artist Sam Durant was pressured into taking down his 'Scaffold.' Why doesn't he feel censored? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

About five million tourists visit the Normandy region each year to pay their respects, visiting the famous Normandy beaches as well as the cemeteries, monuments and museums in the area, the Sun reports. Outrage mounts over $111 million pitch for 'D-Day Land' attraction in France: report 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

In June, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke submitted an interim report suggesting he would recommend shrinking the borders of the monument, though he has not yet said to what extent. A Call to Activism for Outdoor Apparel Makers 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The castle is one of several hundred monuments in Romania in a state of advanced degradation. Romania’s monument ‘ambulance’ races to save country’s past 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

In our CT town, there is still a monument to a battle in which the settlers massacred the local native tribe. Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Each space has been carefully crafted to offer framed views of the city's monuments, including Kröger's fairytale station. What's the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz? 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z

A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens its doors in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T11:31:00Z

As monuments tend to do, it cast a shadow over the remaining years of his life. ‘Young Orson’ review: an audacious new biography of Orson Welles 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Florie Hutchinson, a spokeswoman for Monument Lab, said there is a need for a database on public monuments that is more comprehensive than the currently available patchwork of government record keeping. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

For him, the making of this monument went beyond mere uses; it was almost "too good for its purpose," he said. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z

Lozano will help clients add a glass accent piece — he shows photos of markers incorporating an etched disc, a cross — to a traditional stone monument. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z

The city was an industrial grid of endless concrete blocks, with bleak soviet monuments and starless skies. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z

That is what happened when Rihanna was absent from the Met Gala for a single year: A monument to missing her was commissioned. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

In an era that pinned its hopes on technology, her striking images of bridges and factories, often at odd angles or radically interrupted by unrelated objects, proclaimed them 20th-century monuments. Art Once Hidden From Hitler, Now on View 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

“This is not a Confederate monuments project; it is a monuments project,” says Alexander. Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Despite all the pain in his life at the time — the separation from his family, homesickness, a volatile foreign press and public — “L’Allegro” stands as a monument to the purity and consolation of art. Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

“It was only used for the most important monuments.” For Those Attending TEFAF, Art Outweighs a Robbery 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

“The archeological site of the Acropolis is not suitable for any kind of activism or other activity which would cause offense and displays disrespect for the monument,” the ministry said in a statement. Investigation ordered over movie with sex scene at Acropolis 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Admission to the monument is free, but for the first month after its reopening, only same-day tickets will be available on a first-come-first-served basis, with around 55 guests admitted every half-hour. Washington Monument to Reopen After Three Years 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

The impromptu and collective cheering for hospital staff and first responders in New York is a living monument to people whose heroic behavior is happening in real time, every day. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Designed by young architects Carmody Groarke, who also created the 7 July memorial in Hyde Park, the new monument is like some great stone washed by ocean tides against the Victorian architecture of the museum. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-08T17:28:57Z

And it’s ornate facade makes a statement. He writes: “The museum’s skin — has that typically benign architectural term ever been more charged? — allows it to stand apart from the Mall’s white-marble monuments like a rebuke.” Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

As the Ukrainian Army steps up its counteroffensive in the east this summer, heritage specialists in the west are engaged in a related battle: to preserve Ukraine’s monuments, museums, historical collections and religious sites. Rescuing Art in Ukraine with Foam, Crates and Cries for Help 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

In an attempt to support that dialogue, on Monday the Mellon Foundation announced the $250 million Monument Project to fund the relocation and contextualization of monuments, and to build new monuments commemorating more diverse contributions. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

My first year here, I jogged from my house on Capitol Hill at dawn on a weekend, thinking it would be pretty much me, the monuments and the blossoms. Cherry Blossoms in Washington 2012-04-03T19:52:58Z

Today, the Hagia Sophia, or Ayasofya in Turkish, is officially a museum: Turkey's most-visited monument, whose formally neutral status symbolizes the secular nature of the modern Turkish state. Muslims pray to turn Turkey's greatest monument back into a mosque 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

They wander barefoot among the monuments; she quotes a line from “Hamlet” and he comes right back with the next one. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

It was less thrilling to an older Irish woman whom I overheard, standing beside her companion and surveying the open space where the monument had been. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

These gelatine monuments may never be built, though Himid is an artist who continues to break the mould. Northern Art prize ? review 2011-01-12T21:45:00Z

María, a monument to an old-fashioned way of life, if one who presents as nonbinary, owns the Jalisco tequila factory that gives the movie its title. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Senior Tanisha Parson remembers hearing about the controversial use of Confederate monuments, which were incorporated as silhouettes into dozens of art pieces, before she even reached the doors of the Lyda B. Hunt Gallery. A university gallery showed art with Confederate imagery. Then students called to remove it. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Newseum is billed as a monument to the First Amendment and an exploration of media in the United States. ‘A slow-motion disaster’: Journalism museum in talks about possible building sale 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

And yet by staying the course on Apple Park the company has built an exquisite monument to Jobs, as opposed to a place for the future Apple to define itself. Apple and Amazon take two paths to the same conclusion: The tech companies owe nothing to the American city 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

“The models I’ve had for relationships have been monuments of commitment,” said Ms. Hunt-Ehrlich, recalling the fabled loves of her grandparents and parents, frequent collaborators through their more than 30-year marriage. Sharing Their Visions, Two Filmmakers Find Love 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

But we lack a national monument to the stuff that's made it all possible. Can paper survive the digital age? 2012-11-09T09:20:27Z

There are very few places in Britain where it is possible to view prehistoric monuments in their original settings. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z

Some of the most powerful aesthetic statements last year appeared in the form of monuments covered with graffiti, torn down, or removed. ‘Greater New York,’ a Show of the Moment, Dwells in the Radical Past 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, said, “We must see monuments as way stations that reflect our values.” They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Some call Confederate monuments relics of a past time to honor the dead, regardless of their dated viewpoints, and touchstones to recall history. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

“The comparison of those songs to the Civil War monuments in city centers is a good one,” Ledbetter said. The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bertolozzi, armed with testimonials from politicians and music experts and the fruits of his bridge labors, wants to do something similar on the Paris monument. After Music From a Bridge, Why Not a Tower? 2010-07-08T22:50:00Z

The communists exercised a certain brutality on the city's fabric, demolishing dozens of churches and monasteries, but they also left further monuments that inspire ambivalent admiration. City of wood 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

It is at once a romantically inviting café, meeting place and porch for viewing the monument. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But monuments built on the flood plain of the Hudson River often require maintenance soon after, competing with older statues for taxpayer dollars. As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Someone had left a canoe neatly stowed among the moss and wintergreen near shore, and with the designation of the monument, I figured it now belonged to all Americans, the people’s canoe. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Heritage authorities are tracing monuments with 3-D scanners, creating a record in case they need to be rebuilt — a technology developed too late for many treasures in Syria. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

On a Thursday afternoon, I stop at a monument store called Century Memorials, on Fifth Avenue not far from Green-Wood, to ask about epitaphs. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z

The section of the A344 that currently runs past the monument - almost touching the heel stone - will be closed and grassed over, reuniting the stone circle with the surrounding landscape. Stonehenge gets £27m facelift to end 'national embarrassment' 2012-07-11T11:00:01Z

Cellphone service is restricted to about 10 percent of the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

A public monument to Edward Snowden was unveiled at a New York park early Monday only to be covered up by park officials later in the day. Edward Snowden monument unveiled, then covered up, in Brooklyn park 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Since then the news has spread and she has become an icon of women in science – in comic books, plays and even that modern monument, a Google Doodle. Hedy Lamarr – the 1940s ‘bombshell’ who helped invent wifi 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

And yet the effort to build a monument in Chicago has not gone quickly. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Reid Thompson’s set, centered on a round bath, supported the theme with four statues: three monuments to clothed men, and a single naked woman. Review | Two opera companies animate a 17th-century work to confront #MeToo head-on 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

AM Intended as a working monument to Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s, a jobs provider that would also demonstrate America's vision and dominion over nature, the Grand Coulee Dam is impressive indeed. TV highlights 04/01/2013 2013-01-03T20:00:01Z

Don’t miss the large photo-banners in the museum’s Great Hall or the massive fiber-sculpture monument to the eye and to insatiable looking. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The movie is a half-hour succession of moldering apartment houses and massive factories, a place of faded splendor and industrial funk, populated by lonely Stalinist monuments and revolutionary ghosts. Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Architecture generally involves creating monuments to permanence from substantial materials like steel and concrete. Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Shigeru Ban 2014-03-24T20:46:25Z

Among the first names that a visitor might see are those of the three men on the monument for Shelby County, Tennessee: Calvin McDowell, Thomas Moss, and Henry Stewart. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

The monument is missing a huge eagle that blew down in a storm in 1926 and now sits in the gardens of the United States ambassador’s gracious Havana residence. 5 Ways to Sample Americana in Havana 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

The National Park Service is waiving admission fees at dozens of national parks, monuments, seashores and other sites. Travel deals: Airfare sale to the West Coast and a free hotel night in Maine 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Though public monuments have become a flash point in recent years, supporters of the gate project said it faced little opposition during the approval process. Decades After the Central Park Jogger Attack, a City Marks Its Mistake 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

We made sure we did family outings like art shopping, monuments and sight-seeing, dinners. ‘We are real human beings’: Diane Guerrero talks about her parents’ deportation 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

His traveling is a lot like the new series he created for Hulu, “Up to Speed,” which takes viewers to America’s “monumentally ignored monuments.” Q&A: Richard Linklater on America’s Ignored Monuments 2012-08-24T20:33:56Z

They connected themselves with past rulers and monuments, and they used stories like the one that Thutmose IV told about the dream at the Great Sphinx. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The Boulder Philharmonic plans to underscore its theme of “Nature & Music” by performing outdoors near monuments and parks, and is planning to offer what it is calling “Guided Hikes” led by musicians and nature guides. Kennedy Center Sets Lineup for New American Orchestras Festival 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think of this as a monument,” Mr. Giammetti said. On the Runway Blog: Touring Valentino's Museum, Virtually 2011-12-05T17:32:57Z

Because the monument is situated north of Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay, all of it intersects with human activity. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

But I first saw the town just as Salter’s narrator did: “ … in the distance, against the streaked sky, a town appears. A single, great spire, stark as a monument: Autun.” James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Pittsburgh’s iconic sports history is celebrated with statues, monuments, memorials and historical markers throughout the city, as well as some very entertaining and enlightening sports museums. In Pittsburgh, a visiting sports fan can’t fail to hit a home run

Photograph: Observer As ever, the verdict from the visitors arriving by the coach-load at Stonehenge was mixed: wonderful monument, poor access, disappointing facilities. Stonehenge's £27m makeover will end its days as a traffic island 2012-07-11T15:24:02Z

The new policy would likely ban both the double-decker buses that transport tourists to the popular monuments and budget coach buses, according to Reuters. Paris hopes to ban tourist buses from city center, citing overtourism concerns 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Together, with help from two nonprofit groups, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Conservation Lands Foundation, they decided to apply for national monument status. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

While Libeskind’s design includes a sculpturally stylized Star of David, the new monument advances no creed except, perhaps, the Golden Rule…. Editorials from around Ohio 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

She added: “Restorative nostalgia manifests itself in total reconstructions of monuments of the past, while reflective nostalgia lingers on ruins, the patina of time and history, in the dreams of another place and another time.” Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

In 1965, he sketched plans for an anti-war monument that consisted of a concrete behemoth inscribed with the names of the war dead — and designed to block traffic permanently at Broadway and Canal Street. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

It's a wall-of-sound monument — ethereal vocals, transcendent lyrics, steel guitar and violin from the 'Doggies' big bros the Maldives — layers over layers for five full minutes of climax, and it's moving beyond description. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z

Each cabinet holds untold numbers of documents that together form a monument of tragedy, a compendium of death and destruction, lost lives and grim pain. ‘Clemency’ Review: No Place for Mercy 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Versailles, the third most-visited monument in France after the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, has evolved into a seriously sublime food destination. Five Places to Eat in Versailles 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sandler, in his recent films, compensates for his by building monuments to his own ego. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in ‘Blended’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

But Hollywood Forever co-owner Tyler Cassity told them that the many visitors to his grave would appreciate more of a monument, something to look at, to touch, to take photos with. Bronze bust unveiled at Burt Reynolds’ Hollywood gravesite 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The loop road is closed for the season, and the best winter approach is from the monument’s north entrance, where there is a plowed parking lot. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The contents of the second container—put there by William Henry Hurlbert, editor of The New York World and the man who organized the purchase and transport of the monument — remain a mystery. 11 time capsules waiting to be opened 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

The museum last month put a tarp over the monument ahead of the statue's removal. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Its backers hope that “re:mancipation” will inject ideas into both museum practice and the debates over monuments. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

But there are pitfalls in eliminating memorials to the Confederacy – statues and monuments, along with the buildings, parks, schools and military bases named after Confederate soldiers. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

This is a monument not just to the past, but to living history. Perspective | Best of museums 2018: It was a year to pay attention to new voices 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

“There needs to be more Council oversight and an intentional reform of the process,” said Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, “especially before this battery of new monuments advances.” New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

What they’ll find in its permanent collection is a monument to a movement and, secondarily, to a man, in a display that focuses on difficult, sometimes ambiguous historical data more than on pure celebration. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Biggers said he hoped the exhibition would demonstrate that there were alternatives to taking down an objectionable monument or leaving it up unchallenged. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

“It is a project that must adopt and evolve constantly, and so it is not a monument frozen for all eternity,” Mr. Pinault said. Plans Take Shape for François Pinault Museum in Paris 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

At the epicenter of Richmond, this 12-acre landscape showcases a multitude of gardens, monuments and memorials. Now that spring is here, explore Richmond’s stunning garden trail 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Eastern time Tuesday to Saturday, the $25 tours also highlight the monument’s design and symbolism and the Survivor Tree, a Callery pear retrieved from the ashes. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

“The piece is the shadow,” says Margolles, who was on-site at Echo Park Lake Thursday afternoon to oversee the etching of a text onto the side of her monument. An artist's imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Triumphalism is almost entirely absent from Wiener’s tour of Cold War monuments; he is assailed, rather, by stories of waste and failure at every turn. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z

A landscape that once featured a few unavoidable monoliths of popularity is now dotted with a multitude of lesser monuments, too many to keep track of, let alone celebrate. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z

In a show that celebrates expertise and control, Termini’s “Sassy” is a monument to splendid accidents. Review | In the galleries: Nine artists create worlds of their own for Arlington show 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Afterward, several people placed poppy wreaths along the monument steps to remember loved ones. A self-propelled Belgium brewery tour through Belgium lets you bike to pints 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Wisely, the Center doesn’t treat the cyclorama as art, entertainment or monument. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

In the midst of #MeToo and a reckoning over racial injustice, people have begun to re-examine the art, music, monuments and characters on whom cultural significance has been placed. Speaking of Britney … What About All Those Other Women? 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

This year’s event aims to promote famous and lesser-known monuments, as well as providing a platform for new creative talent. 10 of the best night-time festivals this autumn 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

While those arguments are focused on whether to tear down or remove monuments, other government officials, nonprofit groups and entrepreneurs have been more quietly constructing new ways to focus on the history of civil rights. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

For now, Browder is focused on the steady stream of people coming to view her monument. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

But I knew she meant that the Times was a monument to success measured in terms that made her squirm, or that the newspaper somehow knew that she, its reader, had never graduated from college. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z

This monument marks the landing place from a German submarine on Good Friday 1916 of the Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z

Over the last decade, several public artworks and monuments have been relocated inside private institutions. Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island to Move to Brooklyn Museum 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Statues and monuments are generally dedicated to men. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

She noted reminders of the “awfulness of the Civil War” on cemetery monuments. How America’s open road inspired three women of the 1910s 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The 360-degree sculpture was designed by Paul Day, a British artist known for his public monuments. Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Mister Rogers has a sculpture 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

To engage with it is to meet a person rather than just visit a monument. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

Greece is a country known for building religious monuments in the most extraordinary places. Greece Has 227 Islands. Here’s How to Choose. 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

According to the information provided, it’s a “satire of masculinity and the monument.” The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Then he started researching the artist’s other monuments and sculptures. Maya Lin’s Dismantled ‘Ghost Forest’ to Be Reborn as Boats 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

We need museums that will explain it, good and bad, now and then, and monuments that will honor it and call it out. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

“We live in a landscape that is cluttered with monuments,” Brundage says. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Fittingly, she has made a career out of examining the meaning of places: investigating rooms, houses and monuments, and using them to comment on taste, class, gender, art, history and literature. | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z

We walked through ancient plazas, where heavily eroded, carved monuments depict scenes from the city’s former life in hieroglyphic text and imagery: births and burials, celebrations and battles. The Return of the Jaguar 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The plan to bury in a tunnel the traffic choked trunk road, which runs within yards of the monument, has been abandoned on cost grounds. Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away 2010-07-22T09:52:00Z

Ms. Awai’s design is a humorous, provocative reimagining of what a contemporary monument to Columbus could look like — not on a pedestal, but at our feet. What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal Some Ideas 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Birthday cakes were his mother’s domain, and she made magnificent, artistic monuments to their lives, confections that told the story of the past year better than any journal entry or photo album. Modern Love: Watching Them Watching Me 2012-01-19T21:45:52Z

Part of the importance of a national monument designation is the mandate to create a management plan that takes the whole picture into account, not just its pieces. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t call Shrady’s impressive Grant monument a masterpiece, given its tired stylistic naturalism during the artistically ambitious first decades of the 20th century. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

But since Weeksville is a monument to Black home-ownership, some saw the transfer of those leases to the city as antithetical to its mission. How Weeksville, a Center of Black History, Fought to Survive 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Obama created the three monuments using the Antiquities Act, which allows the president to act independently, though each designation was supported by legislation introduced by members of the Alabama and South Carolina delegations. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps to permit these statues of compliance to stand as part of an enduring monument to an industry’s contempt. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Like most public monuments, the original Arc de Triomphe expresses an idea. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Langston Hughes, dreamy and endearing, has the forehead of an Egyptian monument, while Countee Cullen, only 22 but already a famous poet himself, squints with a young man’s fragile self-importance. Winold Reiss, an Immigrant Modernist Way Ahead of His Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

The monument, which attracts about 600,000 visitors a year, was shut down early on Sunday after the doors to an elevator inside the towering column failed to open near the top of the building. Washington Monument reopens after elevator problems force closure 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

In the family hometown of Gary, Indiana, matriarch Katherine Jackson will unveil a monument to the singer outside the humble house where the legendary Jackson 5 began their singing career half a century ago. Dancing, exhibits, specials mark Michael Jackson anniversary 2010-06-23T18:33:00Z

He is already statuesque, but as he stands on the stage of the Damrosch Park bandshell, the sculptural effect of the draping fabric and the towering structure transforms him into a monument from another time. Dancing on Grass and Concrete at New York City Ballet 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Instead, Leon glumly sits before his manuscript, squinting at the sun and swatting at flies, a monument to the epic narcissism that will isolate him, and generate both cruel comedy and heartbreak. ‘Afire’ Review: His Flaws Are Petty, Pathetic and Funny 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

No public monument has faced such steady abuse as the statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid perched on a large rock in a Copenhagen harbor. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

The minimalist but evocative piece is one of three monuments that rebels and government officials agreed to build with over 7,000 surrendered weapons. Artist pays homage to murdered Colombia rights activists 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Plazas and streets carry their names; in some cases, busts and monuments have been erected in their honor. Read Your Way Through Lima 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

As Burden said more than once, L.A. is short on both monuments and gathering spots. Chris Burden's architectural intelligence 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. In an age of worsening fires and floods, museums are reinventing themselves — and their mechanical rooms 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Painting with a paper cone filled with henna, 36-year-old Fatima al-Ghoul brings historic and religious monuments to life on canvas as a way to express her thoughts about the Palestinian cause. Gazan painter makes art with henna 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

A day spent name-checking monuments and museums followed by a perfect piece of rockfish and some dish with the table-hopping Fulchino always left my guests with a good feeling about Washington. Review | We lost Johnny’s Half Shell to the pandemic. After 20 years, it deserves a farewell toast. 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

At first glance, “Lucian Freud” might seem more a monument than a book. For the Art Lovers on Your List, Career Retrospectives of Two British Painters 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Dedicated by Pershing in 1937, this soaring monument commands a perch that had been an observation point for Germans watching enemy lines around Verdun. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the city is planning to unveil a newly relocated Jackson monument, made of granite, at the singer's original family home. Michael Jackson museum plans unveiled 2010-06-03T09:34:00Z

They not only stop making nice little squash but also leave you with huge, clublike monuments to your indifference. Perspective | If your weeds are getting wild, first things first: Rescue your crops 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

This week President Trump sharply reduced the size of two monuments, while plans for others are unclear. Road to Recovery 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

But Tangerine Dream’s visions of the sounds of the future remain an important monument in cinema’s musical landscape. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z

Combining attributes of a Christian saint, African spirit-figure, political monument, and artist’s self-portrait, Elso’s image of Marti was of a ghost on the march, an embodiment of vulnerability as power. Juan Francisco Elso’s Indelible Art of América 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

Burning Man is often called a Temporary Autonomous Zone, but the bureaucracy behind the building of a monument to an anarchist movement is altogether so far from anarchism that it mostly makes me confused. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z

For decades this monument was a travesty — its fountains and watercourses barren, its lawns moth-eaten, its ancient palisades in peril of imminent collapse. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z

The rings don’t look touchable and wearable: they’re like monuments, not to ardor but to endurance. Art in Review: GLEN FOGEL: ?With Me ... You? 2011-02-24T21:15:13Z

Perhaps the film’s tallest monument today is how Burton and Furst created a visual spectacle that “had no specific precedent,” Levitz says. How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

That list now stands at 59, though the National Park Service oversees 411 sites, including national seashores, monuments, historic sites, trails and more. Celebrating the National Park Centennial 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The monument is divided into three separate parks: the Sheep Rock, Painted Hills and Clarno units. Top 10 national and state parks in Oregon 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

In a 1987 speech, Reagan said, “We honor the arts not because we want monuments to our own civilization but because we are a free people.” Trump’s N.E.A. Budget Cut Would Put America First, Art Last 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Renowned for landscapes in which ancient monuments and modern buildings were arranged in imaginary scenes called architectural capriccios, he was nicknamed “Robert des ruines” by the philosopher Denis Diderot. Revisiting Hubert Robert and His Romantic Ruins 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Children’s workshops and lectures will be held, and a daily newspaper and radio station will be operated during the run of the monument, which will continue through Sept. ArtsBeat: Housing Project Meets Art Project in the South Bronx 2013-05-02T12:55:17Z

Then the representatives, working with city officials, explored a spot by a monument to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. near the waterfront, but they ultimately deemed it noisy and inaccessible. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Tom Finkelpearl, the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, said that the agency approached Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation and a chair of the monuments commission, with the idea of a new, privately funded monument. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

A visitor today can’t help feeling a sort of embarrassed wistfulness for a time when people built such monuments for their books. A Scene Right Out of Philip Roth: His Books Come Home to Newark’s Library 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The monument is the country’s tallest all-granite structure and offers stunning sights of the town, Cape Cod and, if you’re lucky, Boston’s skyline. 36 Hours in Provincetown, Mass. 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

His health was fading fast, and the opera was threatening to become his Sagrada Familia: a monument to what might have been. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

“She has created a monument to living architecture, carved exquisitely with a pictographic vernacular that meshes ancient hieroglyphs with the visual motifs of her home and community.” Lauren Halsey Chosen for Met Roof Installation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

This is not a fit monument to the American men who fought the war. Books of The Times: ?Holidays in Heck,? by P. J. O?Rourke - Review 2011-11-29T23:13:18Z

“We are fighting a holy battle for a monument which is unique.” Greece: Free our marbles from British Museum's 'murky prison' 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

This is still a country where there are more monuments to slaveholders than there are to the freeing of slaves. No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Each year thousands of people travel to the Neolithic monument for the occasion. Thousands descend on Britain's ancient Stonehenge for winter solstice 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

Despite or perhaps because of its historic import, the Neck is largely untrammeled, its monuments scarcely visited, the rural two-lane Historyland Highway bisecting it empty of traffic as often as not. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z

The Sporting News described it the year it opened as “a real monument to the game,” declaring it superior to Davis’ work in Chicago. The battle of the ballparks: Cubs vs. Dodgers and the lost history of L.A.'s own Wrigley Field 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Today, the entire site is one of the most-visited monuments in Washington. Recalling the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Whatever she trains her attention on — from cultural monuments to personal memories — reveals a latticework of proofs that black women simply are not free. The challenge and joy of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis and Adrian Matejka 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel at Palmyra was one of the jewels in Syria’s lavish trove of historical monuments, spanning myriad civilizations, before the country’s conflict began in 2011. Replica of part of destroyed Palmyra altar unveiled in Syria 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

It looms over the rolling controversies over public monuments, which solidify history in metal or stone, then deliquesce into pixels on Google Street View. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

In the grandest of the Philadelphia artist’s pictures, a naked white man stands in blood-red water below towering Civil War monuments. Review | In the galleries: Washington Sculptors Group shows a playful nature 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Parsons briefly joined the Byrds, formed the Flying Burrito Brothers and often visited Joshua Tree National Park, then a national monument with unpaved roads. Forget Coachella, there’s a vibrant, more affordable music scene around Joshua Tree. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Landy said he hoped the bin would gradually fill up to create "a monument to creative failure". 2010-01-28T17:10:00Z

She still lives just minutes away from the Stone Mountain monument and only blocks away from a street named after that prominent Klan family — Venable Street. A Confederate memorial towers over Stone Mountain, Georgia. A local African American woman wants it to stay there. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

“The monument appears at once ageless and contemporary, transparent and opaque, fragile and permanent — a superscale light sculpture.” Michael Graves, innovative architect and designer, dies at 80 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Speaking of the prototypes, artist Christoph Büchel has launched a petition to turn the wall prototypes into a national monument on the basis that they represent “a major Land Art exhibition.” Essential Arts & Culture: Inside the Bonaventure, along the border and a Pacific Standard Time proposal 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

For Blake, the silent prehistoric monument is a work of the giant Albion who in an image from his illustrated poem Jerusalem stands over it with dividers and a giant hammer. Jeremy Deller's bouncy castle softens the image of Stonehenge 2012-08-02T16:15:23Z

A monument to the epidemic would do three things. North America’s forgotten plague 2013-05-04T18:00:00Z

This is sacred ground, a monument for all humankind to see, but, more than that, those are the remains of everyday people. Beneath the bustling streets of Paris, the Catacombs are silent as the grave 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The site is believed be a cemetery, created by the Anglo Saxons within an already ancient burial monument, a Bronze Age barrow dating from 2,000BC. Soldiers injured in Afghanistan make surprise find on UK archaeology dig 2012-08-06T15:16:56Z

While the jubilee put Stratford on the tourist map, an effort 100 years later to build a permanent national monument to Shakespeare there collapsed amidst a pile of debt. Shakespeare. Dead? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Colonel DeJesse, who did tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the unit might number as many as 33 specialists, “the highest number of monuments officers since the late 1940s,” he said. Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

New buildings, public spaces and monuments all conspire to project a positive image of progress. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z

Though much diminished today, the place survives, a monument to its founders’ courage. A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

A photo shows Hans and Zdenek standing in front of a Berlin monument to Otto von Bismarck in 1943 wearing short trousers and broad smirks. A Box of Secrets Led to the Story of Her Father’s Painful Wartime Past 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Thomas Harbich, a student and staff member at Vienna University, has tweeted trivia about the city every day since 2014, including several tweets that relate to the monument and its surroundings. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Park’s response has been to make ersatz monuments like the ones on display at Plain Sight, a pop-up storefront gallery whose small shows are viewable only from the street. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

The place of national monuments in American history was top of mind, too, he said. How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Here, movement through space and location are specified, as well as relationships and social networks, and national monuments and preoccupations. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Whatever wild yeasts and bacteria exist in the Washington air, wafting over the monuments and government buildings, settled into the liquid. Brewers do the wild thing and let yeasts have their way with beer 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

This farewell, among the saddest monuments in 20th century art, is well known; it’s part of why Gorky is treasured. Arshile Gorky’s Art of Bliss Remembered 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

With the help of the Girl Scouts, private foundations and others, they raised $1.5 million in private funding for the 14-foot-tall monument, to be located on the park’s famed Literary Walk. Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Symi Town The Old Markets, Symi Where to stay The Old Markets It’s not often you get to stay in a registered national monument. Greek island holiday guide: the Dodecanese 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Fans gather on online forums and at annual conventions; the Stoogeum, outside Philadelphia, is a monument to Stooges merchandise and memorabilia. The Farrelly Brothers on Their ?Three Stooges? 2012-04-06T13:00:00Z

"An unassuming monument in a tucked away park," explained presenter Cathy FitzGerald. A week in radio: No Greater Love 2012-07-26T20:00:04Z

Edward Steichen’s dramatically moody photographs of Rodin’s masterpiece, his strangely leaning monument to the novelist Honoré de Balzac, emphasize the sculptor’s influential vision of Balzac as a self-creating demiurge. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The view: Look past the tangle of highways at the sweeping panorama of Washington monuments and landmarks. Amazon chose two locations for its new headquarters. Now, we go explore them. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The trails are surrounded by massive sandstone monuments, shadow-filled gorges that frame Zion Canyon, and the Kolob Canyons, which are particularly breathtaking at sunset. Here’s what to do on a weekend getaway to Zion National Park in Utah 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

The monuments in Richmond point to a century of white supremacy. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Named for the craggy 3,057-foot peak at its northern end, the monument runs along a ridgeline that stretches south through seven counties to Blue Ridge, where I would start my hike. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

In Medicine Bow, Wyo., a local homeowner agreed to let them install a monument in her yard — after which, she and her neighbors got around to discussing whose property now lay in Mexico. Why two artists surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border ... the one from 1821 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Country music's most famous alley - a gritty monument to the earthy sounds all around it - is getting a facelift. Famous Nashville country music alley gets facelift 2011-09-18T17:45:08Z

He insisted that it be called the National Gallery of Art — it was his gift to the nation, not a monument to himself, and he wanted it to inspire others. The National Gallery celebrates 75 years, thanks to old-fashioned philanthropy 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Almost everyone says, in different ways, that the monument’s not a good thing and never was. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Parents who want a child’s marker that reflects youth and joy are also drawn to monuments that incorporate glass. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z

Over there is a five-sided monument topped by a white dome and surrounded by a wall. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But the high winds that shut the observation deck of the monument nearly blew away the most important speech of his life. Field Notes: Interesting Marriage Proposals of 2011 2011-12-21T19:15:50Z

All 394 national parks and 582 national landmarks will be closed, including monuments and memorials, including the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. In Transit: What a Government Shutdown Means for Travelers 2011-04-08T21:10:57Z

Walter McConnell renders birds and plants in porcelain, using the sort of kitschy figurines he employs to construct large, complex monuments. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

I started the trip to Deasey by following a rough road to a trailhead inside the monument, then mountain biking along an old logging road that parallels Wassataquoik Stream. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

The tiny stone building gives no suggestion of the extravagant alabaster statues within — funeral monuments of the St. Paul family, local grandees who became staunch Puritans. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z

On the street-facing side, a cement monument, topped by an enormous pair of sculpted fists grasping the hammer and sickle, has been erected in victims’ memory. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

But others see the complex of six buildings in Galicia as a monument to the vanity of the region's former rightwing premier, Manuel Fraga, and an anachronism at a time of austerity. Spain's extravagant City of Culture opens amid criticism 2011-01-11T19:53:11Z

Tours last about 90 minutes and stop in front of buildings and monuments for discussion. In Britain, these Oxford walking tours focus on often-glossed-over parts of the city’s history 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The small church, built between imperial Roman palaces, is considered the most important Christian monument in the Forum. Officials offer rare peek of ancient frescoes 2012-10-01T19:24:13Z

Generations of tourists have stood beneath the monument since it arrived in its current home, but few of them were aware of the more recent historical artifacts beneath their feet. 11 time capsules waiting to be opened 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

It is monstrous, claim critics, to raise a monument to this racist. Henry Morton Stanley's statue will ensure imperial racism is not forgotten 2010-08-27T12:41:00Z

Lavery wouldn’t comment on the point that the monuments Filatov offered to buy depict racist and colonialist imagery, calling them “issues that are beyond our competence.” Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Even though the National Park Service designated the region a national monument, which is less restrictive than a national park, tensions remain. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

There’s often a fine line knowing how much to elevate a child’s understanding of a painting or a monument or a view, rather than just allow her to imbibe culture at her own level. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Securing funding has been a source of struggle since efforts began in earnest to construct the monument in 1833. Washington Monument to Reopen After Three Years 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Although the Eurovision Song Contest might be derided as a campish monument to mediocrity and kitsch in some countries, it is for others an eagerly awaited celebration of Europe's diverse cultures and languages. Eurovision head says global contest a "challenge" 2011-05-16T10:48:35Z

Like portraits, monuments are no longer limited to the rich and powerful. In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Arbus posed her subjects astutely — a black-and-white dress before a wall patterned with zebras — and shot from slightly below to suggest they were monuments. Art In Review: Amy Arbus: ‘On the Street 1980-1990’ 2014-03-21T00:02:22Z

Crucially, the rays of the setting midwinter sun and the rising midsummer sun would shine through the heart of the monument and down the avenue that leads into it. Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery? 2013-03-16T13:49:02Z

“It’s quite subversive in a poetic way. That monument would be in production right now in the context of all these other colonial monuments being reconsidered and removed.” San Francisco Apologizes to Artist Over Maya Angelou Monument 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

The stainless steel monument, designed by artist David Phillips, will be placed in front of the museum. Live long in sculpture: 20-foot art planned for Spock symbol 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Was it a burial site, a temple, an astronomical model, a healing center, a monument to the ancestral dead? Stonehenge at Dawn, Inside the Circle 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Others have linked the story to the national debate over monuments to Confederate history: Protesters successfully lobbied for another statue of Sims to be removed from New York’s Central Park in 2018. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Yes, it’s dirty and there aren’t that many historical monuments, but it is a version of Paris that thrives. How to Really Experience Paris 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Fifty-one of the Chamber’s 52 members have declared their opposition to any changes in the monument’s boundaries, she told me. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

And rather aptly, the terrace of the Lady Hamilton suite, complete with infinity plunge pool, overlooks Nelson's Column — her lover's monument in Trafalgar Square. London's New Corinthia: Spoiled for Choice 2011-04-07T10:40:00Z

Festivals are the rock generation's equivalent of cruises, the convenient place to go to sample various preserved delights, obscure sites and classic monuments and celebrate ancient rituals from a safe distance. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z

Meant as a retort to Confederate monuments, it was created by Kehinde Wiley, best known for his vibrant portrait of President Barack Obama. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

He equated the monument designation to grand theft. At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Most of the American monuments you’ll find Over There are fairly modest; many were commissioned by, and for, individuals. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

In fact, the reopening of the tunnel vindicated the project Attenborough is so proud of: it revealed perhaps as much as will ever be known about this most mysterious of ancient monuments. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z

The only glimpse of the Eiffel Tower is a faux monument on a mini-golf course. Chronicles of the years of fire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Mount Vernon Place Conservancy is overseeing a $3 million restoration of the monument and organizes free concerts, screenings and other events in the square. 36 Hours in Baltimore 2012-09-19T17:39:37Z

The art gallery remains one of the most inviting spaces within the structure, and views of the city and monuments through the corona are dramatically framed. Perspective | The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

There was no monument dedicated to the man’s memory. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

If his mission is successful, Trump will be the first president to abolish a national monument. One Environmentalist’s Warning: Think Globally, Act Accordingly 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

While the Egyptian government is working to preserve one of its most precious monuments, it’s important to note the region’s history with political unrest. Notre Dame and 9 other places to see before they disappear 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

One Sunday evening this summer, I stopped in the tiny village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers to see a monument I had visited on another trip five years earlier. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Though Ravenna is accessible by foot and easily navigated without a guide, Ms. Fabbri illuminated the monuments. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Open through Aug. 21, the beaches offer an unusual perspective on the city and a great opportunity to slow down between museum and monument visits. In Transit: The Beaches of Paris Return to the Banks of the Seine 2011-07-26T10:00:48Z

“The courthouse is kind of — it’s a monument to judicial process and all of its delays and secrecy and boring postponements and hideous misdirection,” he said. This courthouse is the closest you can get to Mueller’s probe, one wall away from its secrets 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

At a time when the country debates its monuments and reckons with who is recognized by history, many see the monument to Wells as a victory. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

“A common misconception about monuments is that there is someone or some central government agency out there that tracks all of our monuments,” she said. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Some examples, like the Roosevelt and Shaw monuments, are eye-and-mind grabbers, dense packages of information and emotion. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

He envisions the park — where a Confederate monument resided until 2017 — as a meeting place for social justice events. Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

These artworks aren't "monuments" in the way that many people may think of, but they are monumental. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

It remains, like the world’s most famous monuments, both familiar and astonishing, as capable of inspiring awe as it did when it first appeared in 1987. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Now it remains among the world’s most-visited monuments, still inspiring a blend of recognition and surprise. An engineer and a young widow meet cute in 19th century Paris. Will love follow? 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

The trope of Aunt Jemima is a monument to the good old days and keeping black women in their place, and I believe in tearing down the monument. How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

And yet, this monument of ’90s grunge art stopped me for a moment. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

A tourist spilled lunch all over the bottom of the monument. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

But public monuments are coming under increased scrutiny, the values they represent often proving less resilient than their bronze and marble forms. Placing Women on a Different Sort of Pedestal 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

When Brown was a child, she would climb the mountain, often playing with her friends near the partially completed monument. A Confederate memorial towers over Stone Mountain, Georgia. A local African American woman wants it to stay there. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The moment is just one of many pathos-crammed sequences in “The Widow Lincoln,” the doleful historical monument of a play at Ford’s Theatre. ‘The Widow Lincoln’ at Ford’s Theatre shows a first lady in mourning 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Pittsburgh is holding a contest to select an African American woman to honor after removing a monument to songwriter Stephen Foster that featured a barefoot black banjo player at his knee. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Throughout the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Universal Expositions on this site produced extraordinary, short-lived cities consisting of pavilions, palaces, houses, monuments, fountains, bridges, paths, and grand esplanades. A Long-Lasting Effect in Paris for a Temporary Structure 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

Chortens, voluptuous monuments built to expiate sin, stand on seemingly every corner. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

Ancestral settlements are well represented in New Mexico’s monuments. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

"It's time to heal the wounds of the monument with the return of the marbles which belong to it," said then Greek President Karolos Papoulias in 2009, at the opening of the Acropolis Museum. How did the Elgin Marbles get here? 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

But the biggest attraction may be the rooftop bar, a space with sweeping views of the Potomac and the monuments that was never open to the public before. Does the Watergate Hotel need a younger, sexier scandal? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Walk by any local skate park and you’ll bear witness to a young man or woman propelling themselves off one of these concrete monuments into another, or into the street. Skateboarders Won 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

As a medieval monument, Notre-Dame, she added, “has no equivalent in American history”. Why have Americans given so much money to restore Notre-Dame? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

I do engineering, I design monuments, I design buildings. The Child in Tomi Ungerer, Evident in His Books, Remains Undimmed 2011-06-28T12:00:00Z

Winters, in frail health in later years, has also been the subject of a campaign to raise money to erect a monument in his honor near the beaches of Normandy. 'Band of Brothers' inspiration dies at age 92 2011-01-10T19:45:39Z

We teach these little boilerplates, the ones that are etched in stone in Washington at his monument. The Making of a New M.L.K. Biography: A Q&A With the Author, Jonathan Eig 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

"The whole of Aldborough – and as much land again around it – is a scheduled monument," she said. Archaeologist digs into grandad's tale to uncover lost Yorkshire amphitheatre 2011-08-17T20:02:43Z

The collection inside the chamber includes an amber chess set, a bronze model for a Renaissance equestrian monument and a playful jesting figure from a fountain among other curiosities. 9 Rarities Appearing at a New York Art Fair’s Debut 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It was anything but normal for the District: a park divvied up between paying customers and those who came to enjoy its monuments and memorials for free. D.C.’s Landmark Music Festival: Mallapalooza it wasn’t 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Lebanese artist Ali Cherri marks aerial view prints of his home city, Beirut, not with locations of monuments but with sites of random earthquakes. The Guggenheim Is Going Global. Kind Of. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s not sufficient to shove abomination under some attractive monument and call it a day. Review: ‘Villa’ Dramatizes a Plot of Chilean Land With a Dark Past 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Oxford is also keen for translations of Anglo-Saxon texts, pictures and videos of Anglo-Saxon buildings or monuments, recordings of Old English, and even videos of historical re-enactments, to be included in the archive. Oxford University opens Anglo-Saxon archive to online submissions 2010-07-06T15:33:00Z

The majestic monument — a testament to human tenacity — scars land considered sacred by Native Americans. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

In the past, a smaller road ran even closer to the monument, allowing visitors to park their cars nearby. Road blighting Stonehenge to be buried in solstice-compliant plan 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

We worried that these monuments wouldn’t hold the boys’ attention. How to Backpack Through Europe, With Kids 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

A simple stone block by Braco Dimitrijevic bears a cryptic inscription in English: “Under this stone there is a monument to the victims of the war and Cold War.” 2010-01-14T18:45:00Z

Those amphoras prompted me to visit the Ararat Brandy Factory, an imperial monument to the Armenian passion for the grape, set on a perch overlooking Victory Bridge, which spans the Hrazdan River. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

He called the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris “one of the great architecture and artistic monuments in the world.” Justice Stephen G. Breyer Talks About the Pritzker Jury 2011-10-06T09:02:25Z

It is fast becoming London's, and the country's, most conspicuous monument. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z

“For some reason,” he said, “I spent hours one day looking at and filming this wall, rebuilt in the 1960s, some monument to the Gestapo prison, with fences, gray stones and horrible wires.” A Pianist’s Warsaw: ‘Fascination and Pain’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

For every stone monument to democracy, an enslaved person forced to build a monument to democracy. Perspective | The fantasy of repudiating Trumpism is dead 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

Better, they should all be together, sharing space, offering a welcoming environment to, among others, a future first female president, and creating a lasting monument to #MeToo. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The site documents US artist Paul Thek's legendary 1960s monument The Tomb, a ziggurat containing a dead hippy mannequin bearing the features of the artist. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

News reports tell us that the terrorist group referred to as the Islamic State is not only destroying architectural monuments in Syria and Iraq, but is also doing brisk business selling looted antiquities abroad. ‘Assyria to Iberia,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Within the space you will see elements referring to Rome: the wallpaper with Roman monuments and the classic plinth. Rome's Depart Foundation opens L.A.-area space with Gabriele De Santis 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

When approaching the circle via the Avenue, the monument appears to rise above the wild flowers of Stonehenge Down. Stonehenge: a new dawn 2012-08-19T19:00:04Z

A climactic moment in the scene involves the Spanish Steps, when the Fiat bumbles its way right down the monument. Watch Tom Cruise Roll a Fiat 500 in ‘Mission: Impossible’ 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

But historians say that this system favors monuments in affluent areas, while those in poorer neighborhoods suffer. As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

It’s the only official B.L.M. sign that I saw naming this place as a national monument. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

If you put a monument in it, the public should be able to take a picture and distribute it. Roundup: A Rembrandt returns, finding Mary Ellen Mark's iconic smoking girl 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Instead of booking a chopper, I tackled two of the city’s most recognizable natural monuments: Lion’s Head and Table Mountain. A $1,000 Day in Cape Town for $100 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The tools used to build the monument were made entirely of stone, bone and wood. Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

It was a little more at ease sitting at the monument. Date Lab: They talked about wills on their first date. It’s not as bad as it sounds.

“It’s a secular cathedral; a monument to Norwegian principles of integration and cooperation,” said Mr. Svalas. Steinar Haga Kristensen Is One of a Wave of New Artists Reviving the Norwegian Capital 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

That’s when I started thinking not only about Confederate monuments, but also about Woody Allen and Michael Jackson. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“This is damage to a protected cultural monument and the matter will be reported to the police,” said museum director Jarle Stroemodden. Vandals damage famous Norwegian baby statue in Oslo park 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Then it was discovered that he was a sexual predator and the country took every monument to him down, including his own gravestone. Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s taking trauma and reclaiming it for yourself and honoring the people in it,” said Scheherazade Tillet, a founder of A Long Walk Home, the national organization that sponsored the creation of the temporary monument. A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Which reinforces a fact that every self-respecting Washingtonian knows, or should know: This city is more than grand monuments and is full of small surprises — often hidden, as Seiger anticipated, in plain sight. A mini-tour of Washington sights you’ve probably never noticed 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

At its numbers and power and the volume of its collective voice, echoing off the national monuments, and at satellite rallies around the country and the world. Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

At the time, the museum said complaints should be channeled through Mayor de Blasio’s commission to review city monuments and that the museum was planning to update its exhibits. Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

The monument is located one mile north of the village of Bellicourt. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The Mission: Impossible franchise is above all a monument to Tom Cruise — or, more accurately, Cruise’s monument to himself, given that he has been the sole driving force of the series from the beginning. Perspective | Why Mission: Impossible is the best blockbuster franchise right now 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

But to Pendleton, the monument in its interim state — gloriously emblazoned with messages celebrating Black, brown, queer and trans lives, denouncing police brutality and more — formed a remarkable text in itself. Adam Pendleton Is Rethinking the Museum 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

The destinations include monuments, museums, state parks, wildlife refuges, downtown districts and even the starting place of the Mason-Dixon Line. Satisfy your food, beverage or cultural craving on a Mid-Atlantic trail 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

People celebrate outside the Stonewall Inn, which President Barack Obama designated as a national monument after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, on June 26, 2015. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Oldenburg, who died on Monday at his home in Manhattan, at age 93, revolutionized our idea what a public monument could be. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Everything – the monuments, the shrines, the storied centuries carved in stone – was lovely. TV review: Westminster Abbey 2012-12-08T08:00:01Z

That dual focus was laid out in a law authorizing the monument, said Reddel, director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z

The city was typically asked only to advise and confirm the final location of monuments, which were not constructed on any deadlines — East Harlem’s Duke Ellington Memorial, for example, took nearly 20 years to complete. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

It does what a monument is supposed to do. Editorials from around Ohio 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Mississippi legislators passed a bill requiring the state to provide exit signs for the crash monument. Play ‘Free Bird,’ man: Signs point to Skynyrd crash monument 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

The cows have been kept away from some streams on the monument, where they naturally congregate in this arid environment. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Rather he simply presents Longfellow as a man, husband, friend and cultural monument of 19th-century America. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

If ever there was a monument to multiculturalism, this is it. Before Islamic State: The Getty acquires earliest photos ever taken of ancient Palmyra 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

When he was Brooklyn borough president, New York City Mayor Eric Adams had supported the traditional monument that Morris would like to see built. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

While I was shooting the project, Trump cut the monument in half. From Fashion to a Fantasia in Stone 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

A shape that was once an indicator of emptiness is now, suddenly, a monument, somewhat architectural, with its two pronglike turrets, but also, increasingly, funereal. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

They Are the World Ostensibly a monument to Brooklyn, this store is, like so many things in modern-day Williamsburg, tourist bait. Critical Shopper: Shopping at Space Ninety 8, the Urban Outfitters Concept Store in Williamsburg 2014-04-09T21:00:29Z

An equally illuminating show at the museum grounds the proto-Minimalist abstract paintings of Josef Albers in the geometric grandeur of Mesoamerican monuments in Mexico. Art for the Holidays: A New York Visitors’ Guide 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

The show culminates in a gallery that contains three works from a series of “monuments” dedicated to Vladimir Tatlin, one of the most prominent Constructivists. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Up there on the surface, there are plenty of monuments — large and small, stately and intimate, powerful and curious — commemorating the fact that a great many Americans perished in France in 1918. 100 Years of Gratitude 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to write a poetic phrase on what turned out to be a civic monument.” How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The most moving monument to Chopin’s life, however, is free. In Warsaw, With Chopin as Muse 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

He found a land no less fraught with politics than the sights and monuments of New York and Washington, D.C. Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mount Rushmore is a good name for a monument but a bad name for a male performance drug. Style Invitational: You gave us a bad name. Now give us a better one. 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The monument worker whom she hired to destroy it, Glen Gilchrist, took the pieces of the statue and buried them behind his barn, keeping the secret for decades. The City at the Bottom of the Sea 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

There are also more than 30 miles of snowmobile trails elsewhere in the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Certainly, some of the top 20 winners have provided the settings for various chapters in U.S. history, but the definition of “historic” need not be limited to monuments and museums. These Are America's Best Cities for Historic Sites 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Valyrians then used it to build their strange monuments and buildings without seams and joints of our modern crafters. All the Hidden Clues in Samwell Tarly's Citadel Scenes on Game of Thrones 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Between a skate park and a police substation, the sculpture is an icon in a city of few monuments, where verticality usually takes the form of oil derricks or fan palms. Will Los Angeles Lose a Beloved Piece of Public Art? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

The imaginative literature, particularly the poems and plays, is the truest and most lasting monument to the glory that was Greece. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

So, if a government building in Arkansas erects a Christian monument on its grounds, the Temple campaigns for its own religious symbol to be built nearby: a 10ft statue of Baphomet. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

This is why removing existing examples of cultural taxidermy from the shared cultural landscape needs to be thought of as a priority on par with the ongoing removal of Confederate monuments tacitly celebrating slavery-era politics. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

With all the attention that’s paid to the pyramids and other monuments, it’s easy to forget that the true genius of the ancient Egyptians was political. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Now it is a monument to Chicago’s great retailing past and a witness to its passing. Hanging 104 Floors Above Chicago, There?s No Time for Vertigo 2011-05-30T12:00:00Z

Her husband, Jim Kaufmann, 48, is the director of the Capitol grounds and arboretum for the Architect of the Capitol, which maintains the buildings, monuments and gardens on the U.S. This flower power couple curates more than 300 acres of Washington’s downtown 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Embedded deep in cultural memory, they are as much a part of the heritage of a place as museums, monuments and iconic architecture. In Hawaii, local legends enrich, inform the visitor experience 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

When he was done with them, the general turned his attention to war memorials and monuments, with the intention of creating order out of burgeoning chaos. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Instead of acknowledging the heroism of the powerful, the work is said to celebrate the heroism of growing up and gently question the tradition for monuments predicated on military victory or defeat. Rocking child takes plinth 2011-01-14T12:05:53Z

Even monuments now devalued as symbols are often dismantled with immense care. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

But his most cherished contributions to the city’s scene and skyline may be the artistic and athletic monuments to which Allen devoted a notable portion of his wealth. The Rare Humanism Behind Paul Allen’s Technological Vision 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

For example, “Angels and Accordions,” a series of spooky, wordless tableaus staged around various monuments, had its seventh annual performance last October. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z

The next day we headed southeast from the town of Escalante; with a population of 800, it’s the largest on the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Our doors are wide open for all the philanthropists and donors who want to tie their name to an Italian monument,” Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini, said in a telephone interview. To Some Dismay, Italy Enlists Donors to Repair Monuments 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

A musical logic also exists for putting on this musical monument. Los Angeles Opera Company?s ?Ring? Festival 2010-06-20T23:29:00Z

“And so I suppose my urge to knock off courthouses, touch the sides of civic monuments … is an oblique method of trying to pack as much Americana into the manuscript of memory as possible.” Crisscrossing the Country on Highways Big and Small 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Seeing Europe’s great monuments repurposed as billboards was almost enough to make me wonder why we fought World War II. Las Vegas, Off the Eaten Path 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The names monument will consist of four walls made of red brick — a common material in Amsterdam houses — shaped into the form of the Hebrew word “Lizkor,” which translates to “in memory of.” Holocaust Memorial Is Closer to Reality in Amsterdam 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Let's talk about the fairies, the ancient monuments, the spiritual meditations, the mispronounced names of traditional holidays, the cobbled-together bits of mythology and folklore. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

A compromise may be in the works that would allow a popular off-highway race from Las Vegas to Reno to run next week through a new national monument in southern Nevada. Obama's playlist earns rave reviews from DJs 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

His camera lingers on Civil War monuments but generally shies away from contemporary battles, except for the odd American flag or “Obama-Biden” bumper sticker. Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy 2010-09-02T22:45:00Z

We endow it with one when we memorialize it in cemeteries, monuments, roadside markers, national battlefield parks. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The Paris-cum-Skopje monument was still meringue white, not yet the blank canvas for protest — against growing concerns about corruption within the ruling party — it would become a week later. Beyond Kitsch in Skopje 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

This live account of Bruckner's greatest symphonic monument, from May 1977, is an eloquent tribute to the art of a beloved former Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director. 10 best classical-recordings list includes Seattle Symphony's Schuman 2010-12-29T22:53:09Z

The economies of those two hamlets — the gateways to the monument — have been prospering on the tourism they draw, she said. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“But there are poems that are valuable without being monuments.” Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

The Angelou monument will become the third sculpture dedicated to a historical woman in the city’s public collection of nearly 90 statues. San Francisco Reinstates Winning Design for Maya Angelou Monument 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

By cultural capital, residents generally refer to the fading Mughal monuments and, to a lesser extent, the lively contemporary art scene at the National College of Arts. Books of The Times: Conflicts and Contradictions of Pakistan 2011-08-08T12:00:00Z

Architects worshiped high modernists like Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier while conservationists focused on ancient and colonial monuments. Discovering Mumbai’s Art Deco Treasures 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The memorial celebrates the heroic accomplishment of the 34th president like a traditional monument but breaks with tradition by contextualizing that accomplishment as part of lifelong narrative of ambition and success. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

“I couldn’t imagine making a monument to Kafka without some kind of reference to ‘The Metamorphosis,’ ” he said. On the Trail of Kafka in Prague 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Chase Lodge in Patten, said the review created one hurdle that makes it hard to find the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Like most of the top artists during the Renaissance’s greatest building boom, Verrocchio was a man of all trades, chiseling marble and casting bronze, painting altarpieces and designing monuments, machinery, theatrical costumes. In ‘Verrocchio,’ Leonardo’s Master Is the Star 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It also undercut Moore’s image as a deeply religious family man known for erecting a monument to the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of his courthouse. The Washington Post wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on Russian interference and the Senate race in Alabama 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, to keep its clean look, all the monument will need in the next years is an annual checkup, with workers going up in cherry-pickers to remove weeds that sprout in the stone’s spaces. Rome’s Colosseum sparkles after magnate-funded restoration 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

One of the 29 landmarks subject to review by the Trump Administration is the Stonewall Inn, which President Barack Obama designated as a national monument last year. We must protect the Stonewall Inn: Why LGBT people fear Trump could erase our history 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

To prepare for outings in the air that last 21/2 to four hours, Laforet calls on mapping software to visualize patterns, topography and major monuments. High-flying photographer Vincent Laforet captures the radiant world below him 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Important historical monuments and ancient libraries are being destroyed in Timbuktu. Festival in the Desert postponed after security situation in Mali deteriorates 2013-02-01T13:52:24Z

Even Google Maps hasn’t recognized its borders as a national monument yet. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

But the selfie-stick, indiscriminately extended and held aloft like a golf club in front of monuments and in museums, is visually disruptive and, depending on its wielder, precarious. The Travel Selfie: I Was Here, Give Me a Discount 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Most major monuments are ringed by green spaces, too. Travel Guide: Paris for Kids 2013-07-30T18:17:49Z

A year later, in 1653, he was killed by an English sharpshooter during a battle, entombed in a marble monument and celebrated as a Dutch national hero. A ‘Sleeper’ Discovered at Auction Tells a Very Dutch Tale 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

How many cultural monuments have endured the centuries on this continent? Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z

Carl E. Hazlewood’s cut paper and cloth wall pieces are, by contrast, ethereal, though one particularly beautiful example is as gray and grave as monument etched with constellations. Museum and Gallery Listings for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:27:54Z

In the end, museums were primarily monuments to their own values and tastes, showcases for what political power and private wealth could buy. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

At a time much concerned with Confederate history and monuments, “Allen C. Guelzo’s fine biography is an important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Picture, as a backdrop, one of those primitively drawn 19th-century mourning paintings with rickety white gravestones and age-worn monuments standing under the faded green canopy of a couple of delicately sketched trees. Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

While Mr. Christiansen appeared to be arguing for the preservation of monuments, he also struck some as insensitive and tone deaf. Upheaval Over Race Reaches Met Museum After Curator’s Instagram Post 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

The 2004 Seattle Central Library, an uneven stack of slabs shrink-wrapped in a glass-and-steel web, was at once an evocative memorial to the conventional library and a monument to the new Information Age. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z

The centerpieces are five fragments from the grand early imperial cave in the northern group, though “fragments” hardly seems the word for carvings that, though incomplete, have the heft of monuments. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z

In the fall of 2017, Monument Lab started a weeks-long project where they set up 10 "labs" across Philadelphia where visitors were invited to answer the question: "What is an appropriate monument for Philadelphia today?" As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Church’s painting from this period is no less beautiful than his earlier work, as he turns his attention from the lasting monuments of divine creation to the weathered monuments of human endeavor. ‘Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage’ Review: A Voyage Into the Past 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

“I loved Italy because of the food, the monuments, the history. That’s the stuff that should be the goal of your travels.” ‘In Italy I Kept Meeting Guys’: The Black Women Who Travel for Love 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Neatly made of metal, wood, plastic and celluloid, mostly in shades of gray and white, the model is an inspiring monument to eccentric grandiosity. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z

He also made it a monument to ethical values, spelled out on the colonnade entablatures: “Live by your work,” “Make friends of your enemies,” “Watch that you don’t become greedy.” Art Review: Venice Biennale in Its 55th Edition 2013-06-05T22:38:12Z

But there is a reason he has a monument in our nation’s capital. Tom Brady is a Super Bowl champ, but he’s no hero 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

That is in keeping with findings from professional archaeologists about rock art and stone monuments, in places like British Columbia and Scotland, whose features are visible only at certain times of year. When Darkness Falls, Three Friends Find Ancient Art 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The airport itself seems a monument to man's arrogance: built on a man-made island in the middle of a typhoon zone, at peak times a plane takes off or lands every minute. TV highlights 19/07/2013 2013-07-19T06:00:06Z

What’s sure, he writes, is that “to overlook sound is to render the story of ancient monuments incomplete.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Sound Book,’ by Trevor Cox 2014-04-23T21:57:24Z

The Chisholm monument, which is part of a larger capital project being undertaken by the Prospect Park Alliance, is slated for completion by the end of 2020. The Shirley Chisholm Monument in Brooklyn Finds Its Designers 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

It is an insistently introverted monument to the bold, sharply geometric achievements of Mexican modernism. Two downtown L.A. parks and the tricky task of designing them to best serve the city 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Pull over for a closer look, and the changing seasons offer a hint at the diverse plant and animal life the monument seeks to protect. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

This portion of the monument feels more accessible, with well-marked hiking and skiing trails. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

The Trust has decided that Chastleton will stand as a monument to the rise and fall of properties owned by the once-wealthy. It’s hard not to be charmed in unspoiled south-central England 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

For the past decade, Duster and a few friends have labored, dollar by dollar, to raise $300,000 to build a monument to Wells. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

In the gallery that chilly November night, the significance of a monument to the lives of Black girls was not lost on the guests. A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

His “Wham! George Michael & Me” is part memoir, part monument to one of the biggest pop stars of the 1980s. Andrew Ridgeley looks back with fondness at George Michael 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Afterward, the tombstone expert and carver Robert Neal Carpenter will discuss the art of funerary monuments. Spare Times for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

It is a gesture as futile, and as glorious in its futility, as building a monument to all the world’s heroes in Mitteleuropa, or printing magazines no one will read. A Bolaño Novel About Young Poets in Mexico City, Hungry for Fame, Sex and Adventure. No, Not That One. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

And then said, "Oh, you don't live here anymore. Now it's a national monument. Now it's a national park. Sorry, not sorry." Baratunde Thurston is making America love the outdoors again: "There's history in nature for us" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

It neatly encapsulates some of the ideas that have made him a monument. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

White women built the monuments to Confederate generals; white women harassed black children as they tried to integrate schools. Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting to compare it to Germany, for instance, where everywhere you go, there are monuments, memorials, markers to the Holocaust. Artist Sam Durant was pressured into taking down his 'Scaffold.' Why doesn't he feel censored? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Confederate monuments are being taken down across the United States, sometimes with fanfare, sometimes in the dead of night, sometimes with agonizing bloodshed. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Some of our most interesting new historical monuments seem designed with this dynamic in mind. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

On paved roads, it took two hours to drive from one corner of the monument to the other, but they are very few. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

In so doing, the film etches a King who's engaging in monumental work without treating him like a monument. In 'Selma,' David Oyelowo digs deep to play Martin Luther King Jr. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

We do not want to obliterate history, and the absence of Confederate monuments will not result in the absence of racism. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

On Friday, more than 50 years later, a 20-foot-tall monument was unveiled at the country’s oldest public park honoring Dr. King and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

This summer, the City Council narrowly voted to move from the front of its courthouse a Confederate monument that was dedicated in 1911, during the high point of Confederate commemoration across the country. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

When the Congaree River, which forms the southern border of the park, floods, usually in late winter or early spring, its waters inundate the roughly 26,000 acres of this monument. Among the Majestic Trees in Congaree, Slipping Into Silence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Their names are on the streets, buildings, parks, squares, colleges, businesses, and banks, and their figures are on the monuments. City of Women 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Across Asia, once-backward regions have surged in the boom that's lifted millions out of poverty--monuments to the Asian economic miracle. Bungle In The Jungle 2011-07-27T22:00:00Z

This casual malice turned into a monument nonetheless. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle): No 4 2010-10-16T10:51:00Z

The wall is apparently supposed to represent “false monuments.” Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

In fact, the very location of the protest — the New York Public Library — is a monument to the robber-baron economic system of an earlier era. Protesting has never been so hilarious 2013-05-16T16:37:00Z

I walk across these fields and become aware of dips and banks, ridges and mounds: eroded remnants of ancient human activities, many seemingly related to the monument. Stonehenge at Dawn, Inside the Circle 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps best known are the iconic monuments and memorials and the Mall, with wide paths and ample grassy stretches. As summer gets underway, a look at this year’s 10 best U.S. cities for parks 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Mercator's projection, for instance, far from serving as a monument to the glories of European civilisation, was in fact an expression of the very opposite: a deep despair at the savagery of its hatreds. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z

Union leaders and activists called for justice and placed wreaths of marigolds and roses on the monument. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

They have long made Mr. Burckhardt, with his avid fan base and mainstream obscurity, the “subterranean monument” of the show’s title. Rudy Burckhardt: ‘Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Alabama’s Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, which produced pig iron beginning in 1882, is described as a web of pipes and towering stoves that stand as a “monument to the Industrial Revolution.” Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

With this free public monument at the western tip of La Concha beach, Chillida truly made his imprint on San Sebastián. Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San Sebastián 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

We drive to see the National Monument to the Forefathers, the largest solid-granite monument in North America, recently featured in Kirk Cameron’s documentary “Monumental.” In Plymouth, Mass., the Thanksgiving story takes on a new reality 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Political and historical weight aside, most public monuments are not easily moved. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

There’s a reason so many of these sculptures resemble monuments, which traditionally are made of marble to commemorate human flesh. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

New York City is pushing forward with an artwork to celebrate the abolitionist movement that some detractors have said is too abstract in a city where so few monuments honor Black people with figurative sculptures. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

In the southern city of Chattanooga, beneath the gaze of the Civil War monument on Lookout Mountain, came the unique rhythms of a sound that would eventually be called funk. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Olympia did not endure as a monument to the glory of the Nazi superman, but as an all-too-permanent embarrassment. The shameful legacy of the Olympic Games 2012-06-14T19:00:08Z

Commissioned by Suleyman for his own tomb and completed in 1558, the Suleymaniye Mosque sits atop the most prominent hill above the Golden Horn, and remains among the most visible monuments in the city. Cultured Traveler: Tracking Turkey’s First Starchitect 2012-06-08T18:10:50Z

The monument in Podgorica - named Titograd between 1946-1992 in his honor - was placed in a park on the initiative of the city hall and a group of World War Two communist veterans. Montenegro unveils monument of ex-Yugoslav communist leader Tito 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Where “Age” highlights the experience of being in a cathedral created by tree branches, the untitled work is like a monument rising on the prairie. Review: A Garden Idyll for Noguchi’s Stones and Steel 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

He asked Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to lead the review and make recommendations to possibly rescind the monument status, reduce the acreage or let it stand. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The idea was to move beyond binary debates about problematic monuments — tear down or keep? — and instead emphasize the inaccuracies and omissions of the existing commemorative landscape, including the erasure of Black history. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Friedlander groups images by subject, not geography: monuments, churches, houses, factories, ice cream shops, plastic Santas, roadside memorials. Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy 2010-09-02T22:45:00Z

The 44th president says he wants it to serve not as a monument to himself but to bigger ideals — democracy, citizenship, civic engagement. Barack Obama is building a library — and grappling again with Chicago politics 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

One in Virginia held a monument to Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy. Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

But in the family hometown of Gary, Indiana, matriarch Katherine Jackson will unveil a monument outside the humble house where the legendary Jackson 5 began their singing career half a century ago. Michael Jackson fans pay tribute to the billion dollar man 2010-06-25T10:16:00Z

But the independent publisher Blue Crow Media celebrates unsung and anachronistic monuments. Love Urban Architecture? There Are Maps for That 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

You'll also find several monuments within the park's borders, including Grant's Tomb--the burial site of President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia, which is the largest tomb in North America. New York City Parks Worth Visiting 2010-03-29T22:00:00Z

U.S. television network CNN caused a firestorm when it included a war monument in Brest, a city in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, in an article on the "world's ugliest monuments" published last month. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z

And with its photo-realistic portrait and contested quotation, it looks more like a meme than a monument. Maya Angelou and the Internet’s Stamp of Approval 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Another jab at traditional monuments is provided by Rachel Harrison, the New York sculptor whose much-admired retrospective at the Whitney Museum was held a little more than a year ago. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

“It certainly helped to rally support for monument consideration,” Mr. Donnelly said. At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

There are several types of temples in Bagan: the solid ones known as stupas or pagodas, which are like monuments; buildings with interior spaces for meditation; and some large enough to serve as monasteries. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But many monuments are crumbling due to lack of funding and neglect. Egypt resumes restoration of historic al-Zahir Baybars mosque 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a place where people go to protest, to see the monuments, to relax on the weekend. A music festival holds part of the Mall for big-dollar attendees. Is that okay? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

What were these grand department stores but monuments to our shared history, repositories of group memory? New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

These efforts may be heralded by a parade and maybe a monument but mostly they are forgotten. The Meaning of War and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Many are hiring sand artists and sculptors to create original monuments in order to propose to their partners. Sand Sculptures for a Beach Wedding 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, besides identifying statues and markers of Lincoln, Washington and others for review, the city launched a website that details those flagged for review by the mayor’s commission on monuments. Fate of Honest Abe statues under review in Chicago, honestly 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

“And a monument is often how a society shows what’s important, what it elevates, what is at center stage.” A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s really about what those monuments have come to represent,” Ms. Joo said, “and the way their meanings change over time.” Inside Art: ?The Ungovernables? at New Museum; a Manet to the Getty 2011-12-01T23:20:13Z

One wishes the director and playwright would have given them leeway to use more of themselves in their performances and less of the material that makes up their monuments. Review | Albert Einstein and Marian Anderson were good friends. But a new play at Ford’s Theatre only scratches the surface. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

To have been in on the conception and the first complete performances of the Symphonia, one of the monuments of the fin-de-20th-siècle, was one of the great honours of my life. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

“Platform,” in the middle of the show gathers large pieces by 12 artists, organized by Tobias Ostrander, a curator at Tate in London; the theme is monuments and their alternatives. Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Around Fairview, a city of under 200, there is no consensus about what should be done with Confederate monuments and the history they represent. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

TAJ MAHAL: In 2018, the Taj Mahal’s dome will get its first thorough cleaning since the monument was built 369 years ago. Here’s where NOT to go in 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But I put my monuments in my work. Inside Gabby Rivera's joyful, queer Marvel revolution 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Its monuments, memorials and museums have become the canvas on which Americans paint their identity, self-confidence and global ambitions. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Rosini never goes anywhere in Rome or Paris without telling us about the facilities, shops, cafes, monuments, adjoining streets. The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico – review 2013-04-24T10:00:01Z

The garden was transformed into a perennial monument to the genius and the personality of her husband. William Walton obituary 2010-03-24T18:21:00Z

These include a large wall installation of paint jars matched to federal buildings and monuments on the National Mall in Washington. Conceptual Art by Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A few of the most famous monuments are slowly recovering. Syria's lost heritage stands out in Aleppo's broken minarets 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Sir Walter Scott has his own fantastically ornate monument on Princes Street: It looks like a mini cathedral. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

For better or worse, Terry Riley is often pegged as The “In C” Guy for his 1968 monument of what-was-then-nascent minimalism. Perspective | Scrap the romantic ballads. Use this eclectic playlist for your first Valentine’s Day stuck at home. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pyburn and others argued that it should be preserved not in spite of its checkered past but because of it, as a kind of monument to the victims of police misconduct. Robert Geddes, 99, Transformative Architecture Dean at Princeton, Dies 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Galschioet said he wants to bring the sculpture back to Denmark, and wants “a guarantee that my employees and I will not be prosecuted in relation to the disassemblement and moving of the monument.” Artist wants safe passage in Hong Kong to remove sculpture 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

This week President Trump sharply reduced the size of two monuments, while plans for others are unclear. In a Hotel Shower, There’s Genius in the Mist 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Epidemics of the past have bequeathed us monuments, places of worship, hospitals, fortifications, cemeteries and feats of civil engineering. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

But drug-related crossings in that area dropped off significantly, and the government in 2015 reopened the entire monument for the first time in 12 years. National park and refuge in Arizona at risk as border wall plans continue 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Statues may fall and namesakes may tumble, but movies will always be their own kind of monuments. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

If there’s something of Kerouac in the local artist’s road-trip approach, Tan’s current work also is inspired by Diderot’s encyclopedia, a monument of the European Enlightenment. In the galleries: No day at the beach 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, Mr. Saddler approached three 60-ish men who were hovering near the text display that describes the monument. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The plaza is the most elaborate of the village’s monuments to its historic significance; for a while, there was talk of building a hundred-and-fifty-room Barack Obama Hotel. Rediscovering Obama’s Irish Roots 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

His favorite: the Malecón, a five-mile promenade stretching along Havana's sea wall that is known for its colonial architecture mixed with Baroque and neoclassical monuments. Jeffrey Milstein's Cuba photographs to be published in new book 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

“The alt-right is producing a world where there is more pressure to remove monuments, rather than less.” Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, established by Bill Clinton in 2000, and doubled in size at the end of Barack Obama’s second term last January, is the first monument set aside solely to preserve biodiversity. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

With “Our Bodies, Their Battlefields,” she provides a monument of sorts. The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

He suggested that he would prefer a financial commitment from the British Museum to help in the preservation of all Rapa Nui monuments. Easter Island mayor concedes Moai statue might be better left in... 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Beyond their ritual significance, there is a sense in which these monuments proclaim the cultural existence of the communities that built them: defiant assertions of people over their place. Musicians and artists rally to save Glasgow's modern stone circle 2013-01-18T08:00:00Z

The Fifth Division alone erected 27 monuments before it shipped out. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

In the images he devises, he transforms ordinary objects such as crates, barrels and ladders into mysteriously powerful monuments. Seattle photographer Chris Engman tricks the eye and the mind in 'Dust to Dust' 2010-12-02T21:37:00Z

We are expected to subsume this constant narrative of monuments — terrifying monuments — that are an insult to people of good will, and the fact I wanted to engage that conversation seems rather obvious to me. Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

I spent a while looking at a map here, made in 1975, that pinpoints hundreds of these anti-Fascist monuments, scattered evenly across borders the cartographer had no idea would rise again. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Entranced, I stepped forward and pulled a luxury from the monument, popping it into my mouth and feeling the gorgeous juice spurt onto my taste buds. Your stories: Dragons are not what you expect them to be by Ellathebookworm 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z

“Women are currently underrepresented in monuments, museums and textbooks that depict and honor U.S. history,” Ms. Maloney said in an email. There Are Museums for Spies and Bigfoot. Now There Will Be One for Women, Too. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The hubbub over the Jefferson statue comes amid several controversies around the country this year concerning public monuments depicting Southern and Confederate leaders. Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

At the memorial’s center is the starkly ponderous $5 million monument of black granite designed by Mr. Leon. Museum Review | African Burial Ground Visitor Center: A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life 2010-02-25T22:31:00Z

Some works, like Ms. Awai’s, engage head-on with the context of monument removal. What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal Some Ideas 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Paris is crisscrossed by dozens of hop-on, hop-off double-decker buses that shuttle tourists between the main monuments, as well as international tourist coaches that bring in budget travelers from all over Europe. Paris says tourist buses no longer welcome in city center 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

It's sometimes described as the "Taj Mahal of the north", an extraordinary monument built by Lancaster's linoleum king, James Williamson, the first Baron Ashton. Lancaster's Dukes theatre: the great outdoors 2013-07-04T14:13:02Z

President Trump rattled off a series of tweets on Thursday morning bemoaning the disappearance of Confederate monuments. Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump Tower Is Now Its Own Monument to Racism 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

A 30-member team there found the monuments through publicly available data. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The bawdy faun sculpture and the eight monument drawings belong to the Louvre Museum. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

A mess makes itself felt, and a memory can be as good as a monument. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z

A duplicate steel monument for each county is laid out horizontally, as if in a vast, open-air morgue, outside the memorial structure. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

It also has marble monuments, spectacular rose gardens and a placid lake. In the heart of Madrid, a park for all seasons 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, blocks of gray ink-wash represent named Washington apartment buildings, but it’s clear that in Porter’s city of trees, the man-made structures are not the real monuments. In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

"It was like finding an undiscovered monument – a Machu Picchu of your own." Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z

Note the slabs of stone lined up behind his statue; Dubliners, who love to nickname public monuments, have dubbed it Tonehenge. 36 Hours in Dublin 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Then she took to the page herself, producing a body of work—novels, criticism, essays, speeches—that would come to be recognized as the central monument of American letters. Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

I also wanted to see the northern end of the monument. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

“A small portion of one side is covered and cleaned, then we move on to the next portion. So the entire monument won’t ever close. It will be open as normal for tourists,” he said. Taj Mahal gets a facelift – and slaps on a mudpack 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Bishop Sutton hopes a monument to Murray in the triangular park across from his diocese, which is just east of Johns Hopkins University, can inspire others to do the same. Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Norton seems to have decided that the best way to celebrate Lionel’s underdog scrappiness was to build a monument in its honor. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

There were a number of outstanding orchestral solos, contributing excellence to a performance that frequently, if not quite consistently, scaled the heights of one of the great musical monuments of the Baroque. St John Passion – review 2013-03-31T17:31:01Z

If you were to build a monument, to whom or for what would it be? They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The late-afternoon sun wraps the city’s narrow streets, hidden gardens and stone monuments in cool, pale light. The Flâneur Discovers Paris, a Step at a Time 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

One of the prototypes is Canova's design for a monument to Titian: an awe-inspiring relief of a pyramid with mourners entering its sepulchral door. How I finally warmed to Antonio Canova, rival to Michelangelo 2010-08-24T14:35:00Z

The 14-foot-tall monument to the three 19th century advocates, dedicated on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the amendment that enshrined women’s right to vote in the U.S. Central Park monument is first to honor nonfictional women 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

We also visited an unusual 2500-ton hilltop monument dedicated to Santanderean culture and history, set on a huge slanted base representing a tobacco leaf. Old Friends, White Water and Roasted Ants in Colombia 2010-07-28T04:28:00Z

“This monument was a white supremacist project,” one of her hand-lettered signs read. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

A famous director who made movies in the west near similar monuments was named Ford, and I though that this might have been a nod toward him. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The site-markers are there, but a lack of monuments allow visitors to imagine the field as it appeared to weary soldiers. Nora Roberts Sparks Up Maryland?s Civil War Country 2010-04-29T22:12:00Z

The company’s standard of 3 inches thick for each monument was arrived at after years of experimentation. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z

As pedestrians slowly begin to fill the area again, a monument has been erected for those who have been there through it all. Acrylic Nails Get the Fine Art Treatment 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

It is likely, at least in part, that Shrady got the Lee commission in 1917 because he was already 15 years into working on the elaborate Grant monument in Washington. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The goal of the initiative by Mellon, the largest humanities philanthropy in the nation, is to diversify the country’s monuments. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Sensing the insecurity and paranoia behind his grandiosity, you may wonder if these aural monuments to teenage dreams were built on sand. | 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector': A Documentary Portrait of a ?60?s Record Producer 2010-06-29T21:39:00Z

Other communities are having to grapple with what the absence of these monuments means to their members. Louisville mayor removing Confederate relic statue amid protests is literally the least he could do 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

They are built as vaults to preserve the past, and as monuments to edited histories. Review: The Broad Is an Old-Fashioned Museum for a New Gilded Age 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

Now that monument is being reconstructed with Russian aid. Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Unlike the majority of his work, Sessums competed for the chance to erect the monument in honor of Mississippi soldiers at the Shiloh National Military Park. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

On an early autumn day this Saturday, just yards from the monument, the compass itself will, symbolically speaking, become fully visible, when the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens to the public. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The timing of Ms. Baker Cahill’s project looks purpose-built for the summer of 2020, when public opinion has been radically rethinking what statues and sculptures merit monument status. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

At the center, a mock-up of a monument covered by sandbags symbolizes Ukraine’s attempts to protect its heritage. Rushing Against War, and Time, Ukraine Makes It to the Biennale 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Gilt and grit rub shoulders along this downtown strip anchored at its center by 40 Bond, a residential monument designed by Herzog & de Meuron for the money crowd. 10 Hot Spots of Summer 2010-07-01T00:36:00Z

The Talaiotic society left stone temples, burial chambers and monuments that resemble smaller versions of Stonehenge. Spain’s beguiling island of Menorca 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

In lieu of a rigid, immutable pillar, Watt, a citizen of the Seneca Nation, has given us a monument to warmth and variability. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

But in a revolutionary break with tradition on which the exhibition book says nothing, Wilson reduced the most famous monuments that served as excuses for his landscapes to the rank of secondary elements. Review: The Mystery of the British Landscape Master 2010-06-04T14:00:00Z

We look at the pyramids, and imagine them too as the monuments of a massively forbidding society. Could this be the earliest portrait in history? 2011-02-09T14:29:36Z

Protesters across the political spectrum have used the Roosevelt monument as a backdrop for their opinions on the topic. Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removal Begins at Museum of Natural History 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

Two of the monuments commemorate civil rights history of the 1950s and 1960s. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

But the number of conservation workers has plummeted from a high in the late 1930s, when a Works Progress Administration program funded about 100 members of the parks’ monuments crew, including artists like Jackson Pollock. As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

I remembered loving Hustwit’s first design documentary on another ubiquitous yet unseen monument of modernism, “Helvetica,” so I went back and re-watched it. What We’ve Learned from Dieter Rams, and What We’ve Ignored 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“I want it to remain as a monument.” A Tender Tome of Travel History 2010-06-14T12:00:00Z

Board of Education decision saw a second, this time bitter burst of Confederate monument building. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

But I beat them to it, streaming these 16 works, plus the Grosse Fuge, a monument in one movement — nearly nine hours of music in all — over some 10 days in January. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Without the tourists that usually flock to see nearby monuments, crowds were thin at the beauty store and surrounding clothing shops. Pampering time: Parisians seek post-lockdown beauty upgrade 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

It destroyed parts of the Tetrapylon, a monument marking a bend in the ancient colonnade, and the facade of the second-century Roman Theater before it was driven from the city in March this year. Palmyra statue damaged by Islamic State goes on display in Damascus 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

The Franklin School is back, but it is now a monument to the loss of cultural patrimony and public trust. Review | Planet Word, a new museum devoted to language, is a high-tech, feel-good experience 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

And I have admired many magnificent pines, rising like geysers out of the rubble of old monuments, or bent like arthritic hands beside foggy mountain shrines. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Conceived by Mayfield as “a monument to the greatest achievement that New Orleans has ever accomplished – the creation of jazz”, it’s a highly ambitious and impressive project. Back on song: New Orleans 10 years after Katrina 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Rodriguez said his organization will work with congressional allies to encourage the repeal of a prohibition on the space across from the African American Museum near the Washington Monument, known as the south monument site. Latino Museum backers are pushing for a prime spot on the National Mall. But a turf war is looming. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

We climbed a set of stairs to a long boardwalk over a grassy field that connects a monument at the very tip of Cape Horn and a working lighthouse. Sailing to the End of the World in Patagonia 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Visit three prehistoric stone monument sites in the hillsides and cork forests around Evora. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The news has been filled with stories of Southern cities making the somewhat controversial decision to take down some of the Confederate statues, flags, and monuments. Stephen Colbert Helps John Oliver Take Down the Confederacy 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The town hall’s monument steps offer a great people-watching spot, while the summer lawn in Spinningfields, a new glitzy development around the law courts, is a catwalk on a summer day. Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox? 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Unlike mere mortals generally confined to the dustbin of history, presidents are memorialized with monuments, presidential libraries, biographies, highways, airports, public schools, coffee mugs and possibly legal tender. A president unlike any other 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Two socially and politically charged public projections are currently bringing new life to monuments in Manhattan. A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The face of the young woman in his famous image “Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963” has the weight of a monument. Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The evidence that Marden was a sort of builder's yard for the most famous prehistoric monument in the world may have been in the mud under the boots of Leary's puzzled predecessors. Was Marden Henge the builder's yard for Stonehenge? 2010-07-28T16:28:00Z

Hawke challenged himself to erect a different monument to Brown’s life. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is a New Entry in the John Brown Canon 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Confederate monuments across the country have fallen in recent years amid debate over whether they are proud monuments to Southern heritage or hated symbols of racism and the era of slavery. Protesters in Virginia cover Confederate monument with trash bags 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Unlike Berlin, or Mr. Vermes’s native Nuremberg, where monuments to the past abound, in Munich, “they’ve found very elegant ways of getting rid of it or not playing it too loud,” he said. ‘Look Who’s Back’: Germans Reflect on the Success of a Satire About Hitler 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

In short, the Charlottesville Lee monument is far less about mourning a hero and a gone-but-not-forgotten culture than about using elegiac sentiment to sugarcoat a secretly seditious present. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Because Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's none-more-80s monument to bombast and epic folly, ushers the listener into a palace of bacchanalian excess, it will take all of your willpower to survive. Readers recommend: songs about visitors ? results 2011-08-25T13:46:52Z

And while it holds some of Greece’s greatest ancient monuments — such as Olympia or Mycenae — there’s a lot more to this region. Rick Steves’ Europe / An unspoiled escape in Greece 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Although this story is under some debate, what remains of the actor Cooke is interred beneath a monument erected by another great English actor: Edmund Kean. Manhattan’s art of the dead 2012-07-12T21:18:00Z

The city is providing $1 million for the conservation of the monument - a restoration project that will make use of the scaffolding around the privately funded installation. NYC Columbus statue enveloped by living room 2012-08-22T12:24:10Z

These include 59 national parks and dozens of monuments, battlefields, lakeshores, seashores, parkways, preserves, recreation areas, rivers, and other historic and scenic sites. U.S. national parks are full of the deepest, tallest and biggest 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Constantia’s crown jewel — the Steenberg Luxury Hotel, with the region’s only golf course, oldest farm and buildings that are national monuments — has had a makeover. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z

A renewed Constitution Gardens would be the Mall’s first monument to the land. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Here he sees the crumbling monument in fiery pink sunset light.• Magritte, Monet and Tracey Emin ? the week in art 2011-08-26T08:00:01Z

Living on a prayer … the Ansar Dine group has vowed to start on Timbuktu's mosques if they contain monuments to Sufi saints. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z

Avner said the Byzantines, who succeeded the Romans, did not preserve their predecessors' monuments and recycled the stone for their own building projects. New Jerusalem find may shed light on Jewish revolt against Romans 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

A youth with torn jeans lies on one of the tables, embedded with the form of a woman personifying victory in a 19th-century American war monument. A Mini-Met-Mashup on the Museum’s Roof, With Summer Views 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

That’s because the park system oversees more than 400 sites, including battlefields, monuments, historical parks, lakeshores and seashores, scenic rivers — even the White House! National Park Service marks 100 years of preserving natural treasures 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

However, he said the charity was looking at a framework for the rehabilitation of the Old City and conservation of its historic monuments "as conditions and resources allow". In the rubble, Aleppo's citizens work to save battered heritage 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

It is located directly opposite the Prince of Wales Museum and is a mere stone's throw from the subcontinent's most famous landing point, the Gateway of India monument. Cine-files: The Regal, Mumbai 2012-10-09T15:48:00Z

Kirk Savage, a University of Pittsburgh professor of the history of art and architecture, has written for more than 30 years about public monuments and collective memory. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Understanding Our World schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Often, the owners of these monuments, chateaus or museums are towns and regions and, by extension, the taxpayers who live there. Famous Paintings Go on Show, Without a Canvas in Sight 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

“The advantage of this method is that it doesn’t harm the monument,” said Cinzia Conti, the state archaeologist responsible for the arch. Menorah on Arch of Titus in Roman Forum Was Rich Yellow 2012-06-24T21:51:19Z

And along the way I catch sight of an enormous gothic monument to Walter Scott. Directing the Edinburgh international book festival: Nick Barley 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

The New York Times’s co-chief art critic Holland Cotter wrote that the exhibition “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer,” which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in November 2017, was “a monument to a monument.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

You can hear echoes of that monument to sweaty bravura in the Weeks' music, which they call "sludge-pop", fair enough considering this muddy mush of soul, Americana, roots rock and ersatz raunch. New band of the day: The Weeks (No 1,490) 2013-04-11T15:58:27Z

And yet the house and its décor are very much monuments to this time too, with furniture and art that contrasts, without being too boisterous about it. | In Salzburg, an Astonishing Contemporary Art Collection in a 17th-Century Austrian Manor 2013-12-03T16:21:49Z

I love the way the sunset throws pink light on the marble monuments. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

These photographers were drawn to pariah monuments, landscapes in extremis. Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z

Congress funded a new monument in 1882, which is still toured by visitors to the estate today. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

“But the problem was knowing what to do with it. Unlike the houses, which were beautiful but unimportant, the tower was a listed historic monument.” Architect Steven Harris And Interior Designer Lucien Rees Roberts Create An Idyllic Oasis In Croatia 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

And just as a monument can create new space in an old park, a new story can make room for more voices in history. Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

I dashed past the White House, and, just as I neared the dark expanses around the Washington monument, the radio transmitter advised people to stay away from open fields. Apptitude: ‘Zombies, Run!’ might scare you into healthy habits

Confederate monuments weren’t something that citizens stumbled upon occasionally. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Of the estimated 5,193 public statues depicting historic figures on display on street corners and parks throughout the United States, only 394 of these monuments are of women. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

It takes time to build monuments; best to call ahead or settle in. Burgers and Franks Go Over the Top at Prontito in Queens 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Afterward, the French built monuments in the area — to the Americans. In France, Vestiges of the Great War’s Bloody End 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Busts of Marti appear everywhere in Cuba, Havana’s international airport is named after him, and there is a towering monument to him in Havana’s Revolution Square. Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Another popular question: How much does the monument cost? They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

It takes 20 minutes to drive from border to border across Green Springs Highway, which cuts like a belt through the narrow midsection of the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

In the distance, in the Upside Down, is a monument to George Washington, an electric January sky, and tens of thousands of nasty women. 2016: One year in the Upside Down 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Go for a walk with gelato in hand and enjoy the parade of people, busy shops and illuminated monuments. Going solo? How to have fun in Europe 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

“Tourism jobs are not family wage jobs,” Tom Mallams, the Klamath County Commissioner, said during a recent Oregon Public Broadcasting radio program on the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The 350-acre Retiro, which originally belonged to the Spanish monarchy, is at the edge of the city center and encompasses  grand sculpture, gardens and monuments, small museums and a placid lake. In Transit Blog: Flamenco, and Food, in Madrid's Retiro Park 2012-04-13T18:00:38Z

To that end, Ally and Paul also scheduled a monument bus tour between the ceremony and reception. Their first kiss? A peck on the cheek while his date was in the coatroom. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Filomena is like so many other D.C. monuments: a site we might pass as we go on with our lives but often don’t visit unless out-of-town friends or family suggest it. Review | After 36 years, Filomena still revels in old-time hospitality and titanic portions 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Given the interest in Britain’s great megalithic monuments – Stonehenge, Avebury, Callanish and so on – you would be forgiven for thinking these are the most massive. Top 10 forgotten British beauty spots 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Photographs of Korea’s most elegant temples, palaces and government buildings are on view here alongside artifacts from the monuments, old maps and high-tech animations that show their internal structures. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

It is, in effect, a monument that listens. They Are Their Own Monuments 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Like the earlier order closing Stonehenge until Sunday, it was made by English Heritage, the historic monuments quango, and by Wiltshire county council. From the archive, 22 June 1985: Policemen turn hippy camp into no-go area 2013-06-21T23:05:03Z

Public tours of the monument to George Washington, the first U.S. president, resumed after the ceremony. Washington Monument reopens to fanfare after 2011 quake 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z

But he left on land a fine monument to himself, further extended and embellished by his descendants: the Villa del Principe at Fassolo to the west of Genoa’s ancient city walls. Review: An Italian Villa of Treasures Opens Its Doors 2010-07-30T12:34:00Z

And while there are only 63 proper national parks, the Park Service manages another 360 national monuments, recreation areas, seashores and other sites that offer unique attractions and fewer crowds. Get Outside and Safely Visit a National Park 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

Its source images make it a monument to impermanence. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z

“There were a lot of disrespectful people who were taking pieces of monuments. So a bit of protection won’t hurt,” he said. Rome bans sitting on Spanish Steps, puzzling hot, tired tourists 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Davis had been thinking about the continuing national controversies over monuments and naming, and had followed the debate at Princeton in 2015 over the legacy of Woodrow Wilson. Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

All the answers were negative with one guy saying I should try to find “one of them old B.L.M. maps,” referring to the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the monument. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Tony's greatest work, Postwar, is a monument to his knowledge and understanding of the continent in which he grew up. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

An adjacent national monument, the 2,000-square-mile Bears Ears, will shrink by 85 percent. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is a transfixing beast, Argus-eyed and monolithic, pulsing with durable Kraftwerk beats, a monument to agitated awe. The Best Television of 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Everything in this monument needs to be discussed.” A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Officials say the monument is in need of constant monitoring and maintenance, but its overall stability is not at risk. Rome to let tourists see Colosseum underground 2010-05-26T16:04:00Z

A planned Central Park monument to women’s suffrage, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, was criticized for excluding black women. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Officially known as the Temple Bar monument, the dragon is my signal to get off the bus. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

You can also think of it as a skyscraper laid on its side — an ideal monument for a horizontal city. I told my mother-in-law I'd plan an L.A. architecture tour for her 80th birthday. But what buildings to choose? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

You build these monuments, but they're really castles in the sand. Kara Walker on the bit of sugar sphinx she saved, video she's making 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

There are eight man-made monuments in the Stonehenge area with solstitial alignments, a number unmatched anywhere else. Sheffield university helps to crack the mystery of Stonehenge - possibly 2012-06-22T16:57:00Z

The towering 30-foot monument is the first dedicated to a black leader on the National Mall. Obama, Aretha to headline MLK monument dedication 2011-10-12T01:16:04Z

He has defended Confederate monuments and downplayed the effects of racism in America. Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

She was commended by the Swedish Academy for her writing, which it called "a monument to suffering and courage in her time." Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It is a monument to the mindless consumption of material goods and waste that plague the world. 5 Great Art Exhibitions to See in New York Before They Close 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

His eye-popping, idiosyncratic monument to Christianity was created over decades of slowly amassing layers of sand, cement and paint. A Road Trip to Death Valley: Salt Flats, Chilly Nights and Kitsch 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

The houses, streets and monuments of Mexico City become dreamscapes of terror and wonder. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Picture the scene: the band's plotting a comeback tour involving a lavish stage show featuring a replica of the monument as a backdrop to their pomp rock classic, Stonehenge. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z

The research for the renovation was conducted over about a decade by Michel Goutal, the chief architect of historic monuments in France, a position independent from the Louvre. Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

A monument to conspicuous consumption, it was filled with an endless catalogue of objects purchased simply because the Vanderbilts could buy them. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

The physical contributions she left now mingle with museums, countless statues and extravagant monuments built in her honor. Evita?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-10T17:04:13Z

Public monuments enrich collective memory because of their permanence: Unlike Shakespeare in the Park, they don’t get packed away after use. North America’s forgotten plague 2013-05-04T18:00:00Z

For the next month, six installations will aim to address some of the stories, and the publics, that have so far been neglected by the Mall’s monument makers. On Our National Mall, New Monuments Tell New Stories 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

There’s another founder whose legacy isn’t a monument, memorial or Broadway musical. No monument for Madison. But one of his legacies is freedom of the press. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

And so, on August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was created and made responsible for protecting the national parks and monuments that existed as well as all future ones. National Park Service marks 100 years of preserving natural treasures 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

We should study them as closely and critically as we do the monuments of any age and culture. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

"We've been living in the shadow of the tower for over 13 years now," says Norris, as we climb down the vertiginous spiral staircase of this unique monument to one man's inflated whims. Hadlow Tower: the UK's tallest folly reborn as a rentable holiday home 2013-04-18T11:06:44Z

But one of the city’s most fascinating monuments is well off the tourist trail, in the middle of Treptower Park, which runs along the Spree River in the former East Berlin. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z

In true Strauss fashion, “Metamorphosen” is a vast monument to something. Sarah Chang and National Philharmonic shine in thoughtful and passionate program

Physically, with its monuments, statues and radiating avenues, Washington retains the elegant Parisian look assigned to it upon its creation by the French-born architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant. | D.C's Dinnertime Diplomacy 2011-11-23T23:08:15Z

But while locals were keen to reclaim Italy’s monuments, the directors of many cultural institutions were worried about the loss of much-needed revenue from ticket sales. Italians Rediscover Their Museums, With No Tourists in Sight 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

He's internationally known for transforming historical monuments by surrounding them with domestic spaces. NYC Columbus statue enveloped by living room 2012-08-22T12:24:10Z

Between the 1880s and the 1910s, Mackintosh and his architectural firm partners produced about 350 designs for buildings, additions and monuments. A New Forum for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Transformer’s modest space isn’t big enough for an Albert Bierstadt landscape or a Robert Motherwell abstraction, but it can hold another art-museum monument: a gift shop. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

So when I read that 200 headstones and monuments were found spray-painted with swastikas in a western Illinois cemetery over Memorial Day weekend, I wondered if anyone would be held accountable for that crime, either. About that hate crime at a western Illinois cemetery 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

The main piece of the Teddy Roosevelt monument was taken away by crane in the wee hours of early Thursday morning, just after midnight on Wednesday. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Some monuments may be so offensive to the local community that they’ll need to be removed. Why the case for the removal of Confederate memorials isn’t so clear-cut 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

A twin set of 800 monuments lie in the surrounding garden, awaiting reclamation by those counties. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

And it defines “monument” broadly to include not just memorials, statues and markers but also “storytelling spaces,” as the foundation puts it, like museums and art installations. Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Dozens of monuments and artworks await repairs and conservation that may never be forthcoming because of rising maintenance costs and shifting priorities to newer memorials. As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

“I was up there for a summer with my art school and a million mosquitoes building a monument,” said Julia Guelman, a Moscow art gallery owner. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z

“It’s in an advanced state of degradation and it’s a monument of national importance,” Vaida, who in 2016 launched the Ambulance for Monuments project, told The Associated Press. Romania’s monument ‘ambulance’ races to save country’s past 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

Austria inaugurated a monument on Friday to thousands of its nationals who deserted Hitler's army during World War Two, marking a new step in efforts to acknowledge the nation's wartime past. Vienna inaugurates monument to World War Two deserters 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Is a national day of mourning or a monument enough?  CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

Hamilton shows his political nous, as he makes a brisk but somewhat undermining recommendation of a Roman sculptor planning an American monument: “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, his hands and eyes were covered with red paint, and expletives were spray-painted on the side of the monument. As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Though the foundation primarily focuses on Russian art, a BBC report in June on the removal of the Roosevelt and Baranov monuments stirred Filatov to action, and he resolved to save them. Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, I suspect, it will be preserved in memory mainly by the high-end art world as just a work by Mr. Hirschhorn, another monument to his monumental ego. Art Review: A Visit to Thomas Hirschhorn’s ‘Gramsci Monument’ 2013-07-25T21:19:20Z

The most prominent mementos of the fighting here are the cemetery and the little monuments scattered about the countryside. Where Americans Turned the Tide in World War I 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

On Friday, the Mayor announced that Ms. McCray would lead a Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission whose brief would include reviewing the monuments in the city that were deemed racist. Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

The monument hangs high from the ceiling, and sunlight obscured my view. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

What I’d taken for a self-portrait was more like a snapshot, and what had seemed like a monument was actually something stranger—what Knausgaard, in our conversation, called a “cave in time.” “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

My brothers and I headed up a path marked by Stonehenge-like monuments and ran into scree and talus, which sound like the title of a Nickelodeon cartoon, but are diabolical. Explorer: Facing Fear, With Family, in the Sierras 2013-09-05T13:00:28Z

Apart from that, it's just a whimsical monument to an individual, our own Ozymandias. What were the highs and lows of your Olympic Park experience? 2012-08-08T15:16:58Z

The monument will be open on Saturday nights until midnight through Oct. Heads Up: More Doors Open in Rome 2010-09-11T05:01:00Z

Every French president since de Gaulle has imagined some Pharaonic cultural monument or other to honor La Grande Nation, as the mocking German media occasionally call their Gallic neighbor, and to enshrine himself, of course. Abroad: In Planning a History Museum, Sarkozy Opens a Can of Worms Instead 2011-03-08T10:23:38Z

Groups like Philadelphia's Monument Lab are helping cities focus on what they want their monuments to say about their collective histories and futures. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

In an 1889 remodeling, the monument acquired a panoramic 360-degree frieze about initiating trade with natives abroad, at the apogee of French academic painting and the height of France’s commercial empire. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

It's a model that could be implemented by cities that are now debating what to do with the space left behind by the Confederate monuments. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Is the Eisenhower Memorial the last of the ‘great man’ monuments? Review | New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

During the present crisis that is isolating us, this monument has the potential to bring us together: It is an instructive emblem to contemplate, and a consoling one. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The successful bidder will also get the tools de Weldon used to build the statue, plus the sculptor's drawings, sketches and photos of the monument. Original Iwo Jima monument coming to NYC auction 2013-02-08T12:27:08Z

Some signs, then, are both monuments and alibis. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z

The playful piece is a riposte to the square's military monuments. Rocking horse boy unveiled in Trafalgar Square 2012-02-23T16:02:09Z

"At the same time, they'll see this edifice, this amazing monument to the good and bad in America — the American dream and what we do when we don't like people." Seattle reinvents its artists colony 2012-04-29T05:08:07Z

Invisible from the street, the villa is an intact historic monument surrounded by wide lawns, a swimming pool and tennis courts. Fashion Diary: Milan Men’s Fashion Week, the Sun Also Sets 2013-06-28T21:01:13Z

Like “Restoration,” “Dirty Blonde” assessed the impact of a cultural monument on those who idolize it. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

There are stones and symbols and memorials and monuments everywhere. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Conservation groups are actively working to preserve this fragile monument, where ancient havelis, or merchants’ houses, with lacelike screen walls of wood or stone crowd narrow lanes. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z

This museum is in a unique setting surrounded by many monuments, cairns and rock art. Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

The national culture ministry has hosted workshops, won commitments from international partners, and kept a public database of damaged and destroyed monuments for future legal claims. Rescuing Art in Ukraine with Foam, Crates and Cries for Help 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Beginning in October, admission to the monument will continue to be free to visitors arriving in person, but reservations can also be made in advance online for a $1.50 processing fee. Washington Monument to Reopen After Three Years 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s taller than I am and the slick, classic red and white labels create a festive pattern, the whole thing a monument to the soup’s now-intrinsic place in holiday preparations. "America's béchamel:" How Campbell's canned cream of mushroom soup became a Thanksgiving staple 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z

The fathomless horror of the first world war is remembered by the compact Cenotaph, but also by the aggregate of many cemeteries and monuments across Europe. Ground Zero 9/11 memorial flows with mournful splendour 2011-08-15T09:48:17Z

I had neither my partner’s apathy nor other classmates’ grandiose imaginations of monuments. West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Browder, who also runs a youth empowerment initiative, sees the monument as the first stage of a campus she’s creating that will house a park, art gallery, resource center and student travel center. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

So the need is clear to help protect surviving monuments from iconoclasts and do what we can to limit the funds for fundamentalist groups. A few good Monuments Men: Saving art from looting and destruction — especially in the Middle East — is a military matter 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

He added: "And that monument must be a symbol, a strong symbol, to say never again." UN seeks designs for memorial to slavery victims 2011-09-30T22:50:08Z

“I am now proud to announce Anthony Goicolea’s stunning design for this monument — selected for the way it complements the landscape and communicates a timeless message of inclusion.” A Monument to Gay and Transgender People Is Coming to New York 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Thailand held an international conference, in collaboration with UNESCO, last month to discuss conservation of brick monuments at the site. Urban sprawl threatens Thailand's Ayutthaya world heritage site 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

His company removed Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, including the Lee statue there, and quietly whisked away other iconography outside Virginia before returning to Richmond to deconstruct the pedestals on which the statues once sat. For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

But the monument of stones at Walden is the opposite of angry, or declarative or, for that matter, monumental. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Travelling with his fellow artist Val Prinsep, he piously followed in the master's footsteps: "Ruskin in hand, we sought out every cornice, design or monument praised by him." Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Once called the All-Union Exhibition of the Achievements of the People’s Economy, it was built as a monument to the greatness of socialism, though now looks more like a crumbling totalitarian Disney World. 36 Hours in Moscow 2010-09-30T20:40:00Z

The first episode, “Re-Righting History,” jumps into the battle over monuments and buildings honoring Confederate generals. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Conan Without Borders’ and ‘GI Jews’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

At those 10 sites, there were prototype monuments to help get people thinking. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

“This is going to allow myself and other incoming monuments officers to hit the ground running,” he said, of the lab’s work generally. Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Then the pavilion floor begins to incline downward; and the monuments are suddenly presented in suspension, as if they were gradually lifting off from the ground, higher and higher the further you descend. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

In flat light and centrally framed, these read like portraits of minor but awkwardly handsome monuments, connected by intention but markedly different; they once dubbed their subjects “anonymous sculptures.” August Sander/Bernd and Hilla Becher: ‘A Dialogue’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

When HBO Max announced Tuesday that it was temporarily removing “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming service, it seemed as if another Confederate monument was coming down. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence. It’s also an image fraught with political meaning.” New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jérôme Le Blay, a Rodin expert based in Paris, said that he disagreed with the family’s decision to remove the Middleburg bronze monument. Rodin Bronze From Family Plot Is Heading to Auction 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

When thousands of white supremacists converged on Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend, angered by the city’s plans to remove Confederate monuments, they employed the terrorist tactics of the KKK.  There have never been “many sides” to American racial terror 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Real trees followed, as did homegrown monuments — murals and sculptures made from pieces of furniture encased in concrete and decorated with mosaic patterns. They Are Their Own Monuments 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Its aim is to use images taken before the destruction of sites such as Palmyra to record, and even rebuild, some monuments. Using Laser Scanners to Preserve Antiquities in ISIS’s Cross Hairs 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

A monument to manliness, Butler’s façade touts the names of more than 40 thinkers, writers, and politicians – all of them men. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

"A monument to dissent" is what its editors call this timely, handsomely produced rejoinder to the state-sponsored hoopla over the London Olympics. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 2012-07-31T10:45:01Z

For the French, there’s a more visceral connection between French fashion and French monuments that has to do with definitions of the country’s culture and how it is disseminated around the world. Woven Into the Fabrics of France 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Now she lives in an apartment overlooking the marble monument honoring the nation’s first president at the entrance to Washington Square Park. Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The work of other teams suggests that timber and stone monuments were separate parts of the same Stonehenge story. Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away 2010-07-22T09:52:00Z

People think of Washington as monuments and museums and politics, but my husband is a playwright, and so many of our friends are theater people or book people. For this young adult author, girls want more than to just have fun 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

By his account, visitors began advising him that he was lucky to live in a house that was part of their history, and newspapers called for Taprobane to be declared a national monument. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Alisdair Macdonald / Rex Feature Rem Koolhaas, always suspicious of architecture for its own sake, intimated scepticism about the pavilion concept, but with his collaborators came up with an instantly appealing monument. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

After visiting President Lincoln’s Cottage, I drove late in the afternoon to the city’s southeastern quadrant and took in the impressive view of Washington’s monuments from the peak known as Cedar Hill. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The Hollow Tooth is the ruined spire and entry portico of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche, or Memorial Church, built, in 1895, as a monument to a ruler of the nineteenth-century German Empire. A Beacon in Berlin 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

I’ve been circling the Mediterranean for 67 days, taking in more beautiful views, fabulous beaches and ancient monuments than any one person deserves in a summer. Frugal Traveler: In Lebanon, in Search of Music, Souks and Home 2011-07-26T18:56:44Z

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council designated the city’s oldest surviving restaurant of the Norms chain a historic and cultural monument. Googie Architecture Enthusiasts Rejoice! The Oldest Norms Restaurant in L.A. Is Officially a Monument 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It looked like an ancient Roman monument, but of far more recent vintage and located about 700 miles too far north. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z

One reads, “In an empty station / Anxious people are looking for their return train / Afraid to miss them / At such a moment / We indeed live in a spectacle / Our body is our own monument.” 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

It would seem the last thing the Met needs is an enormous monument to an exemplar of America’s most famous art movement. The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill? 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

But with his entrance into the murky world of NFTs, the businessman, Martin Mobarak, also generated incredulous headlines and an investigation by the authorities in Mexico, which classifies Kahlo’s artworks as national monuments. Setting a Kahlo Drawing Aflame in Search of an NFT Spark 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

He would need to issue a presidential proclamation to establish the group as a monument. Is Donald Trump, Wall-Builder-in-Chief, a Conceptual Artist? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The teacher particularly digs the art of taking rubbings of the epitaphs and pithy final comments found on gravestones and monuments. EXCHANGE: Dead leave last impression 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Obama dedicated a new national monument to women’s equality and pushed Congress to pass legislation requiring employers to show pay disparity is not based on gender. Barack Obama uses Equal Pay Day to attack disparity 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Nothing is being removed, no monuments relocated, or anything else “erased.” Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

“They are total pillars for me — they’re monuments within themselves,” she added. Lauren Halsey Brings Her Vision of South Central Los Angeles to New York 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Along with many of the other prehistoric stone tombs and monuments in Ireland, it was built centuries before Stonehenge, or for that matter before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Hey, Irish Americans: Your "Celtic" tattoo isn't Celtic — because that whole idea was made up 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

The insides of modern landmarks like Black Rock, historical monuments like the Statue of Liberty and some of the new supertalls now dwarfing yesterday’s cloud-scratchers are as eye-popping as what’s outside. The Hidden Feats That Built New York’s Towering Skyscrapers 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Centers like Monte Albán are monuments to power and accumulated material wealth; they are also clearly evidence of a large-scale political organization, relics of perhaps the earliest state in the Americas. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z

“That’s the Sphinx. It’s one of the most famous monuments in the world.” A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, an art historian and professor at Harvard University, said the commissioning of these statues as historical monuments are taken down signals “an expansion in the American narrative.” A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Wilson spares none of the opulent details, lingering on the construction of Iranistan, Barnum’s sprawling Bridgeport villa, an ego monument on par with Mar-a-Lago. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The ancient monuments were closed along with museums in mid-March in Greece’s lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Greece to reopen ancient monuments this month as it eases coronavirus ban 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

“That’s one thing positive that these new monuments can do: People who may know nothing about Ida B. Wells will find things about this extraordinary woman they didn’t know anything about.” ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

But as the site’s revenues account for a chunk of financing for other monuments, their absence will be a big loss, said Federica Rinaldi, the state official responsible for the amphitheater. Italians Rediscover Their Museums, With No Tourists in Sight 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Imperious, perverse, remote and radiant, Catherine Deneuve is a monument to French poise and pulchritude. This Star Burns Brighter 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

The monument offers scenic drives to locations where important fossils were discovered. Finding fossils, on your own dig (or in a monument or museum) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Together, Shrady’s Lee monument in Virginia and his Grant monument in Washington create a false equivalence in bronze. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Gavin Kenyon’s gray, fur-flecked blob on a polychrome base, at Thirtieth Street, is ironically titled “Realism Marching Triumphantly Into the City,” and seems aimed at deflating the grandiosity of classical monuments. Andrea K. Scott: A New Sculpture Exhibition on the High Line 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The focus now is on particular statues, memorials and monuments. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

A photograph of Niagara Falls was the only American image included that year in a French picture book of “the most remarkable monuments of the globe.” How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s made the monument become a source of pride, and income.” Herculaneum’s Ruins Are Revived by Philanthropy 2012-11-15T00:58:11Z

Those monuments to enlightenment became symbols of shame and disgrace, as we talk about in the book and film. "We're putting people in prison whose only crime is mental illness" 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

And why should this site now lure as many as 18,000 celebrants to a summer solstice festival on the day the sun rises through a gap between its central stones, bisecting the monument? Stonehenge at Dawn, Inside the Circle 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Old Ebbitt is as much a monument as anything on the Mall. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Men in cargo shorts are still defending Confederate monuments. The next HBO show from the “Game of Thrones” team will start a civil war 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

And it benefited from them when the winners commemorated their victories with gifts and ever more elaborate monuments and buildings. Fortune-told 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

This gloomy, basalt Victorian monument may be grade A-listed but no one needs long memories to recall its notorious past. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z

Once on the island, we make our way through a maze of wide, winding roadways that remind me of Paris, complete with towering statues and monuments, and immediately take a wrong turn. In Detroit, Belle Isle Aquarium is a forgotten gem for fish aficionados 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Like the imperial monuments of the past, the airport always exists in the background, a crushing symbol. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z

Horwitz reckoned with the legacy of the Civil War all his life, fearlessly, long before battles over Confederate monuments and the press’s fascination with the resurgence of white nationalism. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

He had previously written to the university to assert his ownership of the monument, although his requests had gone largely ignored. Tiananmen massacre statue barricaded at Hong Kong university 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

The association of gothic buildings with “dark, brooding gloom” is “fundamentally misguided,” he said; they are “not monuments to melancholy.” A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zinke recently completed a review requested by Mr. Trump of large national monuments created by his predecessors — Presidents Bush, Clinton and Obama. Drilling Near Dinosaur National Monument Draws Criticism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

One of the strangest and most haunting objects in 21st-century Istanbul is the twisted bronze monument called the Serpent Column, a fifth-century B.C. monument to the Greeks’ victory over the Persians. A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

We identified 339 buildings, monuments and other cultural sites that the war has partially or totally destroyed. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Career: Best-known for multi-disciplinary works such as Truisms, a series of one-liners printed on posters, T-shirts and billboards; and Projections, a long-running work projecting phrases on to public buildings and monuments. Jenny Holzer – portrait of the artist 2013-02-05T17:39:49Z

Last year saw a record number of visitors to the National Park Service’s more than 400 parks, monuments, battlefields, seashores and other sites. National Parks Gear Up for Summer Rush 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

“We cannot just have these monuments deteriorating in a pile of rubble,” she added, “because nobody is paying attention.” As the Mayor Promised Millions for New Monuments, Old Ones Crumbled 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

“A hall can’t just be a monument to itself,” she said. A Pioneering Orchestra Boss Had ‘Unfinished Business,’ So She Returned 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The $2 million removal, carried out by the museum and the city, comes after The New York City Public Design Commission voted last June to relocate the monument, the Post reported. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

“The fact of the monument itself, that it exists at all, that it will be where it is, is the message.” Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

At first glance, these portraits recall the kitsch pictures of Stalin, Lenin and co from the early Komar and Melamid days, in that each makes a monument of the subject. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Every era erects, removes, amends — or ignores — monuments. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Buildings and monuments around the world were lit purple for a night. What We Know About Prince's Death, His Estate and His Trove of Unreleased Music 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Not everyone remembers that the excavations are an archaeological monument and not an amusement park,” Mr. Irlando said. Can a Restored Pompeii Be Saved From ‘Clambering’ Tourists? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

“The deliberate destruction of an artistic monument constitutes a crime in terms of the federal law on archaeological, artistic and historical monuments and zones,” the government said in a statement in September. Setting a Kahlo Drawing Aflame in Search of an NFT Spark 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The monument that was eventually created represents the Roman goddess Libertas, "enlightening the world". Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z

Plymouth recently voted to remove Hawkins’s name from a city square after protests against monuments to philanthropic slavers. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

“We visited the monuments and the museums and that sort of thing, and it really made an impression on me,” he said. Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Many of these monuments were made by slaves. Eyes on the prize: on the civil rights trail in Washington DC 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

I am all for the monuments to slavery coming down, but when the protests eventually subside and the hashtag activism is muted, we must continue to take meaningful steps to make a difference. White allies, stop asking me if I'm OK. Black people are not OK 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

It's a brave composer who takes on such a challenge, and while the piece is overlong and occasionally muddy, its closing pages build a lasting monument in glorious, polyphonic sound. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z

Several of its buildings were classified as historic monuments in 1993, including the thatched building that is home to the Przewalski's horses. Paris's 222-year-old zoo calls for help to restore historic building 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Toy soldiers wade through a resin swamp atop a birthday cake in Esther Eunjin Lee’s sugary war monument. Review | In the galleries: Tiny contemporary monuments to transient phenomena 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nichols has created an immaculate monument to a great American play. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z

The desert farms are magnificent 20th century monuments to unsustainable agriculture. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

“The old monument was a clarion call for those who just were not on the freedom train. We want to get a monument there honoring someone who calls us to honor everyone.” Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The New York Young Republicans Club, among others, defended the monument and spoke to "Fox and Friends" about the issue nearly two years ago. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The resulting “Units of Artistic Energy” were displayed on a counter projected on the monument. In Paris, Art Confronts 2 Crises 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

A monument erected to a dictator’s glory becomes a lucrative tourist destination. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z

From Ljubljana in the northwest to Skopje in the south, Yugoslavia’s cities served as public expressions of political reinvention, while huge, abstract anti-Fascist monuments, markers of national unity but also artistic independence, dotted the countryside. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

As to the buildings and monuments of the city and the West End, I did not care much about them artistically. From the archive, 3 October 1893: Émile Zola on Victorian London 2012-10-03T06:30:00Z

"The story of monuments is always a story about mapping power in a city. And it has the aura of permanence." As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council in New York, also suggested that public officials nationwide, including Governor Cuomo, were moving too quickly on removing the monuments. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

So few people pass through Drake’s Passage now that, without need of monument or edifice, there’s a palpable connection with the past, and the feeling you’re following in the footsteps of illustrious company. Patagonia adventure: a voyage round Cape Horn 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Few who pass the monument probably realize that he was among the greatest dancers of his generation. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Rockefeller Center, that monument to 1930s New York, is being built nearby. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Happy Days Aren't Here 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Over the next three centuries, seven more such monuments, holding the ashes of revered abbots, would join it. Art Review: ‘Golden Visions of Densatil’ Opens at Asia Society 2014-02-20T23:13:05Z

The material risks are clear: designated a Unesco world heritage site in 1979, Damascus boasts Syria's greatest concentration of historic monuments. The civil war's threat to Damascus 2013-01-02T08:00:02Z

Its lawns, a much-trodden carpet for 24m visitors a year, were looking the worse for wear, and the Mall and its monuments were badly in need of maintenance after decades of neglect. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

There are also shadowy monuments like “Galactus,” a star, and “Cyclops,” a sniper tower. Hong Kong's Conceptual Circus 2010-05-10T11:00:00Z

Guests get a Champagne breakfast and a nighttime limousine tour of Washington's monuments. In Transit Blog: Hotels Are Combining Politics and Bedfellows 2012-09-20T17:00:52Z

He returned home in triumph in May 1915, invited to speak at the unveiling of a monument to Garibaldi in Quarto, near Genoa. The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-22T12:00:01Z

Ms. Bell observes of the sculptures, “The modes of rogue existence they evoke — from sex workers to loathed squatters — make them monuments to the women most maligned by bourgeois Europe.” Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

According to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, “There is no doubt that President Trump has the authority to review and consider recommendations to modify or add a monument.” At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Workers barricaded the Pillar of Shame monument at the University of Hong Kong late Wednesday night. Tiananmen massacre statue barricaded at Hong Kong university 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

I appreciated the skyline and monuments, as well as views further inland, such as Washington National Cathedral in Northwest and the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria. Rediscovering Washington, D.C. — on a stand-up paddleboard 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

She began researching the monuments’ installation after growing frustrated with some residents’ behavior during public hearings the city held in the spring of 2016 to discuss the statues’ removal. Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Like Stonehenge, the ancients aligned this monument with the stars. Beyond Dublin, a dazzling day trip 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Nowadays James's "authorised version" is seen as merely a monument of beautiful but antiquated English. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z

More than 100 of you took KidsPost to beaches, parks, monuments and family reunions. Is your photo in ‘Summer of KidsPost’? 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

How such issues get negotiated and compromised is part of the uncanny cultural exchange that materializes for two weeks every year amid the monuments. Coca leaves and a llama fetus: How the Folklife Festival ensures authenticity 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The work is backed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, whose goal is to revitalize run- down communities and monuments. Aleppo, Syria to Undergo Historical Restoration 2010-04-19T21:00:00Z

His grave is a circular granite monument with no statue. Green-Wood Cemetery, Where Presidential Aspirants Enjoy an Afterlife 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The museum’s location and proximity to other iconic monuments — Washington, Jefferson and, of course, Lincoln — will speak to what has always been true about our original sin: its centrality to the American story. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

It's interesting that they would try to remove slavery from my history books, but keep the monument to the man who perpetrated those atrocious acts. D.L. Hughley: The ultimate Black superhero would have the power "to make white people believe him" 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

When we were walking to the monument, I told him I’m a huge jaywalker. Date Lab: They talked about wills on their first date. It’s not as bad as it sounds.

His father was a commercial sculptor who specialized in funerary monuments. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

At today's celebrations there was a political target – David Cameron and the coalition government – following the announcement that government funding for a visitor centre at the ancient monument was being cut. Summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge hit by funding blow 2010-06-21T11:00:00Z

The Cenotaph's power has been reduced, though, by the Women at War monument just behind it in Whitehall. We have the cenotaph: we don't need more memorials 2010-07-12T07:00:00Z

After all, any statue commemorating Kareem would also be a monument to the hook shot, the once prevalent but now all but forgotten big man's signature move that he perfected. Kareem and His Hook Shot Deserve a Statue 2011-05-20T08:40:00Z

Mr. Jones talks emotionally about the historical imperative of building a slavery museum in a city replete with Confederate monuments. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

On a weekday afternoon we walked together to the square where his monument would soon be installed. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z

After Syrian government forces took back the city with Russian military support in March 2016, the bust, alongside other damaged ancient monuments, was taken to Damascus and archived in boxes. Archaeologists restore ancient Palmyra artifacts in Damascus museum 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The contrast between the serene monument and the surrealistic action is key: Contemporary violence and paranoid fantasies override Enlightenment ideals of democratic sanity. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

He proposed a single monument, honoring George Washington, near where the Washington Monument was completed decades later. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the Sphinx was also long regarded as female — I certainly always believed the ­eerie monument to be so — but initially it bore the face of the male pharaoh Khafra. ‘The Story of Egypt’: A look at a gender-bending society where women could rule 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The monument was dismantled and dispersed, and its components were only brought together again at the Bargello in the 1970s. Art: In Florence, Revelations in Stone 2011-08-12T11:30:07Z

The sculpture is a work by Los Angeles artist Daniel Joseph Martinez and it unites, in one fractured monument, the legacies of two highly recognizable American figures. Argentine slums and a Unabomber cabin: How 'Home' at LACMA rethinks ideas about Latin American art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

He called a Purple Heart recipient a “moron” for suggesting that it was worth discussing the idea of removing monuments of George Washington, the United States’ first president and a slave owner. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s attacks on Sen. Tammy Duckworth are as disgusting as they are predictable 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Pillars of stacked rocks rise from the ground like tombstones, or fists, serving as monuments to lives lost in a year of spectacularized death. The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

The band played surrounded by tombstones, funerary monuments and the mortuary statue of Johnny Ramone. Ask the indie professor: My top 10 gigs of 2010 2010-12-22T11:48:26Z

As of last month, it was the largest of the land-based national monuments, a 2,900-square-mile rough polygon, about the size of Delaware. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

"We don't want to build monuments," says Murdoch, "but we've tried to ask what would be the building Sky would build?" James Murdoch's Sky scraper 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z

But if the views are less pristine, the art and the architectural monuments are far more accessible, preserved and curated with care and intelligence. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z

The “Battle” series of terra-cotta works similarly sends up the histories of “heroic” Baroque paintings and war monuments, turning armed conflict into a frenzied, sketchy and messy affair. Lucio Fontana, a Sculptor but So Perverse 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Standing in the painting’s new home, Jones, a white man in his mid-fifties who wears metal-framed glasses and a bushy gray beard, reflected on the still-roiling debates concerning Confederate monuments in the South and elsewhere. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

She felt “great. Very happy indeed. I did not expect it...but the monument talks, and it says its history.” Researchers date discovery of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem to Roman era 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

A National Park Service spokeswoman, Elizabeth Rogers, said that things have been busy in the nascent monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

I take issue, in terms of my own work, with the very term of “monument.” Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

He acquired his stash of sculpture, paintings and monuments the same way Napoleon did: by conquering nations and claiming the treasure. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z

And we can only express our gratitude for the effort of dedicated editors and scholars to create this work, a national monument to the founding of our nation.” ArtsBeat: A Digital Future for the Founding Fathers 2011-01-30T20:02:25Z

"It's remarkable how many monuments from his literature are here," said Michael Kimmage, a Roth scholar at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Roth's 80th cause for Newark, NJ, celebration 2013-03-20T11:51:11Z

Across the country, monuments honoring racist figures are being defaced and toppled. For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Children will be encouraged to think about their designs and meanings as they tour the New Museum Triennial “The Ungovernables,” which has several art pieces that either invent or reinterpret monuments. Spare Times: For Children, for March 2-8 2012-03-01T22:36:11Z

In May, Maine Governor Paul LePage, an outspoken opponent of the monument, directed the state Department of Transportation to not post any road signs for the monument, pending the outcome of the monument review. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is a last-ditch effort to save a city built as a monument to modernity and hope but now threatened by neglect and the fierce demands of the global art market. Le Corbusier's Indian masterpiece Chandigarh is stripped for parts 2011-03-07T19:28:49Z

The Protector enlists a young illuminator of manuscripts, the Boy, to create a monument to him in the form of a book. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z

Because they only get the monuments from the U.S. This tour guide doesn’t shy away from the painful parts of D.C.’s black history 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

On Friday, the monument competed for attention with the horseless Naked Cowboy, who was playing his guitar and mostly undressed as usual despite the 40-degree chill. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

With the help of the Girl Scouts, private foundations and others, they raised $1.5 million in private funding for the 14-foot-tall monument, to be located on the park’s Literary Walk. Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

As a protagonist who channels our outrage over Tom’s treatment by the whites of Maycomb County, Ala., the Atticus that Sorkin and Daniels wanted to conjure had to be flesh and blood, not a monument. Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels made ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ their mission 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Iron Age monuments pepper the landscape, and while most sights are little more than rock piles, just standing next to a megalith that predates the pharaohs is stirring. Beyond Dublin, a dazzling day trip 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

At the turn of the millennium, there were about 100 national monuments, but the grill was the Rocky Mountain West’s only woman-owned, chef-owned restaurant operating its own farm. Classic rock: Exploring the spectacular landscape of south-central Utah 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Would you choose to have a monument of Madonna or of Marina Abramovic in Washington Square Park? Life Is Raw. Life Is a Work of Art. Enter the World of Ivo Dimchev. 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

“I always felt too small,” he said in an interview last year on Chicago radio, “never I felt ready to perform this huge monument, because it’s so deep, so vast.” Welcome to New York. Show Us Your Mahler Ninth. 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

The fire was brought under control at around 7am on Friday morning as authorities began to assess the damage to what is deemed a monument to postwar communal housing. Marseille's Cit? Radieuse damaged by fire 2012-02-10T10:41:36Z

The monuments men worked for six years until their unit was disbanded. Monuments Men: A Baltimore writer learns her father helped in the search for Nazi plunder

I don’t remember much about the trip except for an overcast day when we made an obligatory visit to the Pantheon, which initially seemed like another dark and ominous monument. Crowning Glory 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The system wasn’t working when I visited, but it promises a high-tech whimsy unusual in Ripley’s, a vaudevillian monument to the bizarre. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Brune says stalled legislation to create a wilderness area is why tens of thousands of club members are working for monument designation. Sierra Club pushes for Idaho national monument 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

His grave kept the stone-carvers busy: The tall monument has 30 lines of lettering. Green-Wood Cemetery, Where Presidential Aspirants Enjoy an Afterlife 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Trusted friends have stepped up to the plate, or rather monument, to do rubbings for him, too, when they have found themselves in the vicinity of interesting graves. EXCHANGE: Dead leave last impression 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Both women, who perform the tours in their free time and without pay, wanted to ensure that the public knew the full historical context surrounding the monuments. Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Once, I heard shouts and saw a ladder keel over with the slow, graceful arc of a monument toppling during a revolution. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

“There is not a lot of Black people to cause a ruckus, so it is the perfect place to put that monument,” she said. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the perfect monument to this city’s rebirth is a gleaming new marina that anchors the waterfront; huge and visually spectacular, it wouldn’t look out of place in Dubai. | Latin America Issue : On the Colombian Coast, Natural Beauty, Gritty Charm 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z

In late November, at the White House’s annual Tribal Nations Summit, President Biden stated his support for protecting Avi Kwa Ame, though he has yet to declare its status as a national monument. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

In his diary Alcott writes: “Mrs. Adams suggests that visitors to Walden shall bring a small stone for Thoreau’s monument and she begins the pile by laying stones on the site of his hermitage.” Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Includes accommodations, breakfast, transfers, guides, monument entrance fees and most activities. Tour and Hotel News: Dance and Music in India; Safaris in Tanzania 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

But now there’s also a monument to his victims. ‘Futures’ comes alive in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

I’ve long thought there are more pointless monuments and works of abstruse public art here than any emerging-economy country really needs. Ay, yi, yi, the ways Mexico spends its tourism money 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

He has created farm scenes, a formal garden and a monument to the quilted bag, all in the Grand Palais. On the Runway Blog: Flying the Friendly Skies of Chanel Couture 2012-01-24T16:15:19Z

He has created an altogether new piece titled “Scapegoat,” a 40-foot-long hobby horse with a giant goat’s head, a parody of virility and monuments to political leaders typically sited in public spaces. Installation at Socrates Sculpture Park Takes Political Turn 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Five weeks before “Young Mr. Lincoln” opened, the contralto Marian Anderson, who had been forbidden to perform at Constitution Hall, sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial, crystallizing the monument’s association with freedom and civil rights. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

This week President Trump sharply reduced the size of two monuments, while plans for others are unclear. Bring It Onboard: What Gabrielle Union Won’t Travel Without 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z

"In order to give everyone a chance to make this pilgrimage," according to the flyer, "passengers will have a maximum of 30 minutes to spend at the monument per trip." No Chaos This Time as Woodstock Concert Site Preps for 50th 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

To date, Bears Ears National Monument in eastern Utah, has been the only national monument to explicitly address its Indigenous roots. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The United States Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Managementand the nonprofit Tuleyome also offer information on the monument and its trails. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Why is her name missing from the honor roll of war heroes carved into thousands of monuments in hundreds of French village squares? Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Where are your battles, your monuments, martyrs?” asks the voice of a metropolitan skeptic — and the poet’s strident answer is “the sea.” In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Or all the times LOVE, KNOW, OK and other words appear as monuments in Pepperland. How the Beatles' Yellow Submarine gave rise to modern animation 2012-11-19T18:49:59Z

We spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and treasure in imposing our will on nature, on preexisting or inherited structures, dreaming of permanent solutions, monuments to our ambitions and dreams. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

Like Bradford’s layered canvases, their art evokes a kind of shame, or trauma — a breakdown of the public narrative as articulated by official architecture or sanctioned monuments. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

The point was to ward off any more memorials or monuments. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Completed in 1988, the building was described in Progressive Architecture as “an amazingly rich achievement — a monument to thoughtful, patient collaboration.’ Romaldo Giurgola, Architect of Australia’s Parliament House, Dies at 95 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

The museum’s response is almost opposite to the one taken by the monument. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Great War Opens in Meaux, France 2011-11-12T00:48:01Z

It was a Proustian return to the early years of jet aviation that first fired his imagination – and it had the air of a monument to a career. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Renée Fleming, singing two scenes in a row, got a living monument, Plácido Domingo, for a brief duet from Massenet’s “Thaïs.” The Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Itself 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

On 125th Street, he stopped to read the text on a monument to the politician and civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Jay Ellis Comes Home to Harlem 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jousse took Mr. LeClerc on tours of Paris by night, showing him lighting canisters, electrical wiring and spotlight colors of the city’s monuments, official buildings, bridges and boulevards. T Magazine: A Fresh Glow for the New York Public Library 2011-05-19T18:36:32Z

Seeing the pyramids of Giza again — iconic monuments that thousands of visitors snap photos of every day — was a richer experience for me as a photographer, too. A Refreshing Look at Egypt’s Ancient Pyramids 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Miller said that the origins of the other great monument of 17th-century English literature is due for a similar reconsideration. Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The architect, Eero Saarinen, supposedly wanted to build a monument that would last a thousand years. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

At the base of the monument is the Provincetown Museum, which chronicles the town’s maritime history. 36 Hours in Provincetown, Mass. 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Gillespie warned of the dangers of gangs, vowed to protect Confederate monuments and condemned national anthem protests by pro football players. Democrats’ wins in state and local races credited to Trump resistance 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

“What is special about Mumbai’s architecture, and about Art Deco in particular, is that unlike Delhi it is not all monuments or public buildings,” Mr. Kumar said. Discovering Mumbai’s Art Deco Treasures 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is a reduced version of Gaudens' monument to Lincoln in Chicago's Lincoln Park, depicting a pensive Lincoln standing with one foot forward in front of an eagle-emblazoned chair. American masters get new life at NYC's Met museum 2012-01-15T19:16:04Z

Plans are being considered for the singer, who died in her in Camden Town, to be remembered with a monument at the Roundhouse. Amy Winehouse statue planned for Camden venue 2012-06-08T08:52:42Z

The festival was a monument to the post-grunge period, when hard rock still held water in the mainstream. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Old Faces in New Places When a monument wakes up, you notice. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z

In times of belt tightening and with hundreds of Italian monuments requiring restoration, she added, there were more fruitful ways to sponsor culture. Leonardo Fresco Search in Florence Spurs Protest 2011-12-06T23:07:36Z

But it’s grotesque to turn that process into a monument to one man’s professional advancement. ‘The Outsider’ Review: Inside the Making of the 9/11 Museum 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Some 70,000 tonnes of concrete and 3,000 tonnes of steel were used to create the monument to the Bulgarian Communist Party. Bulgaria's crumbling Buzludzha Monument draws call for a rescue 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

In 1922 a landscape architect named Aurele Vermeulen pitched an ambitious plan backed by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler to line the boulevard with a series of triumphal arches, monuments and fountains. Peter Zumthor's L.A.-LACMA vision in need of update 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

In some cases, that effort means making parks more relatable, like by creating monuments to minority figures. It may also mean changing the very appeal of the wilderness. Stuff white people like: National parks 2013-09-06T21:14:00Z

Belarussian writer Alexievich won last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." 6 intriguing new nonfiction books 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The government said the proposed tunnel would closely follow the existing A303 route, but a further 50 meters away from the monument to avoid any such damage. Road blighting Stonehenge to be buried in solstice-compliant plan 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Outside the museum, it’s a short hike up to a small bluff that’s lined with monuments to the military units that participated in the fight. A trip to Utah: Visiting the other American D-Day beach 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

We are, after all, walking on a monument. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Another hornet’s nest resulted after a planned Central Park monument to women’s suffrage, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, was criticized for excluding black women. New York’s Cultural Affairs Leader Makes Surprise Exit 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

This stately villa in north London is, on the face of it, a monument to British cultural glory. Kenwood House and what it says about British art 2010-11-23T14:57:00Z

Only one third of the monument will be covered by scaffolding at any time. Rome Trevi Fountain, symbol of Dolce Vita, to get big facelift 2013-01-28T19:09:31Z

Perhaps some monuments to the valorous dead are in order. Review: Surviving War With a Sense of Humor in ‘Pity in History’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Presidents have amended national monuments, but none have ever delisted one. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Because the center is a national monument to President Kennedy, 12 members of Congress sit on the board. Chicago Symphony Chief to Run Kennedy Center 2013-12-10T18:15:10Z

If you seek his monument, look at the “also by” page in the front of this book. Paul Theroux’s New Book Ranges From Literature to Landscapes, With Surprising Cheer 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Residents of Darb al-Ahmar are being trained at restoration sites as a way to revive traditional skills and ensure future maintenance of the monuments. Next Time You Are in ... Cairo 2011-01-27T14:25:00Z

In the center is an image of Lenin, and there are two doves, symbolizing peace — both common iconographical elements in East German monuments, Mr. Melching said. Art for East Germany’s Secret Police Is for Sale at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Bureau of Land Management in Utah, helped place a granite monument on the Utah-Arizona-Nevada corner this past fall with cooperation from all three states. Quirky hobby has travelers looking for spots where 3 states touch 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Constructed in the 18th century by the Chan clan, the Hakka walled village was declared a historical monument and converted into a museum in the 1980s. Top 10 cultural sights in Hong Kong 2013-01-21T10:33:00Z

This year, at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta, the organization’s attendees debated the problem of Confederate monuments and statues during a plenary session. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Bungalow 8, a three-story monument to local design, contains a stunning collection of furniture, accessories and one of the city’s best loved clothing labels, The Bungalow. | A Bohemian Getaway in the Heart of Mumbai 2014-04-16T17:57:22Z

And there were plenty of tips — for the staff and our guide, drivers and the turbaned attendants at monuments who led us to hidden hieroglyphics and posed for pictures. Ancient History Along the Nile 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

They took us to museums, national parks, historic monuments and sandy beaches. These kids made memories with their grandparents 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

One of these monuments looks to me like a female torso. From Fashion to a Fantasia in Stone 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

And, he assured, it’s not going to stop Las Vegas, “the epitome of America celebrating” — a monument to our national relentlessness. This is what it felt like in Las Vegas after the shooting 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

A preacher since he was 16, Mr. Pinner says he doesn’t believe in spending so much energy on the future of monuments. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Carr, a Gilbert and Sullivan fan, takes the conventional bourgeois view of it as a collection of worthy monuments. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Jeremy Deller's touring Stonehenge bouncy castle was an ingenious spin on our best-known national monument, offering an alternative to public art with a flag-waving agenda. The best art exhibitions of 2012 2012-12-29T00:06:26Z

Is there another developed nation that has a standing monument to a dictator, built by the forced labor of the defeated? Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z

Many of these monuments are protected by state laws in the former Confederate states. Rediscovering the Confederate Flag of Truce 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

In 1964 Andy Warhol trained a camera on the Empire State Building for about six and a half hours, in a meditation on the nature of monuments, thought and perception. A Fashion Show Epilogue. Or Was It an Elegy? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

By the end, this shadow has become a man who is as substantial as the rocky land through which he once staggered and, much like Mr. Stanton himself, a kind of monument. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Donatello's tiny cherub bursting with mirth as he shakes a tambourine had more eloquence in its single up-curled toe than all the muckle monuments of Rodin, the only conventional choices in this show. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 4 – Bronze at the Royal Academy of Arts 2012-12-18T10:44:34Z

Philip sent Gossaert to draw the half-ruined ancient monuments and buildings and newly excavated classical statues, as well as the new works they inspired. Glory be to Gossaert 2011-02-22T15:05:42Z

A walk through this lively zone turns up artifacts and monuments that ask travelers to ponder the huge loss of culture, knowledge and humanity during the Holocaust that took place between 1938 and 1945. How to feel the spirit at pilgrimage sites in Europe 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

A genetically distinct strain of redband trout overwinter in the monument’s lakes and ponds when the days grow short. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a monument to a monument. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Her D.C. monuments include an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt and renderings of Ella Fitzgerald and Carter G. Woodson. In the galleries: A personal look at a maker of monuments 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Its plan is a starburst, a set of radiating and expanding boxes, whose ceilings slope up towards views of the monuments of turn-of-the-millennium London. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

Is a memorial to Eisenhower the last of the ‘great man’ monuments? Review | Trump has tried to coopt the Army. This new museum shows why that won’t be easy. 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

The new music project, “Planetarium,” was a solar system-themed spectacle, a cycle of songs dedicated to the monuments of space: the planets, the sun, the moon. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly on making space music for a hard time on Earth 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

"The monuments are hidden gems, yet they are comparable – in beauty, in history – to a lot of our national parks" Campaign against Trump’s threat to US national monuments gathers pace 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Reminders are everywhere in France; the tiniest rural villages have monuments to the war dead. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

This lumpy stocking is full of leftover lands, sewn into a monument designation. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

“You can’t do a monument to love or monument about opportunity that is in some way inspiration or hopeful without also confronting the adverse,” he said. Creator of Divisive King Monument Builds Sculpture for Super Bowl 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

The museum, the most prominent feature of the tiny town of Monroeville, is essentially a monument to Lee and her book. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

It will be be erected near the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, blocks away from the Confederate monument that inspired its creation. As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

And there were objects that projected information loud and clear, as was the case with commemorative political monuments after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

Instead, he said he hoped his financial backing would be an incentive to other businessmen, both Italian and foreign, "to do the same to restore other monuments." ArtsBeat: Colosseum Won't Be Restored in a Day, but Work Is Finally Scheduled to Start 2012-07-31T16:53:09Z

But it wasn’t until I returned to Rome in October with Flavius Josephus as my guide that I fully grasped the significance of this monument in Jewish and Roman history. Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

In the city center, sandbags covered a monument as part of an art installation that replicates measures taken to protect statues in the war-torn country. At Eurovision, Ukrainians Find Community Far From Home 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

In the wake of a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., dozens of monuments ultimately came down across the United States. What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal Some Ideas 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Next to it stands a monument topped by a stone on which another patriot stood to give a fiery speech supporting the cause of liberty. Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

“This monument is meant to recognize and amplify the voices of the women used in experiments that have led to breakthroughs in gynecology today.” The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Obama’s monument designations, some historians said, don’t just put more diverse history on the table. Lessons Taught: Obama’s Legacy as a Historian 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

The Old Kingdom ruler is credited with creating the innovative triangular shape that inspired the scene-stealing monuments at Giza. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The position of the graphic posters forces people to higher ground to take clear photographs of the view across the pool to the monument. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

I’m thinking this as we stand in the dome and stare at that monument, all lit up and glowing in the dark below. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain

Near the town is one of the world’s largest sacred monuments and across the Nile is the Valley of the Kings. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

An exhibition at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs in Manhattan illustrates how some budding French and English photographers responded by turning their lenses on architectural monuments. Early Architectural Photography On View in a New Exhibition 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

But it would be a proper resting place for the ugly history of America’s Confederate monuments. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Each year, some 5 million to 6 million tourists traipse through the first two tiers of Italy’s most-visited monument. Rome’s Colosseum sparkles after magnate-funded restoration 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

When it is completed, visitors will be able to see the face from the top of the monument or stroll through it on the Mall. National Portrait Gallery installation will transform tons of sand and soil on the Mall

Also known for its brilliantly colorful “Painted Hills” rock formations, the monument is a trove of fossils originating over a span of 40 million years. Finding fossils, on your own dig (or in a monument or museum) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Eisenhower was famously critical of the military-industrial complex, but the military-archival complex is a monument to American diligence. Was Truman or Ike the first president to ride in a helicopter? A lesson in the limits of journalism. 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

In a statement, Robin Baker, the film institute’s head curator, said “The Epic of Everest” portrayed “a key moment in the history of mountaineering and remains an enduring monument to Mallory and Irvine.” ArtsBeat: Restored Film of an Ill-Fated Mt. Everest Expedition to Show at London Festival 2013-08-27T19:09:46Z

Lau Pa Sat distinguishes itself with its soaring cast-iron frame and national monument designation. 36 Hours in Singapore 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

It's a pretty grand monument to the notion of rehabilitation, but hardly anybody on the outside knows it's there. Sounding Out: 'I've rarely met such creative minds' 2012-07-04T11:40:57Z

The last person to finish is happier than the first person to finish, as he took the time to see all the monuments surrounding him.” In Transit Blog: Two Walks Through Paris in Spring 2012-03-17T14:08:00Z

They refuse to be monuments; they are like antique chairs that people actually sit on. Pursuits: Austin’s Moon Towers, Beyond ‘Dazed and Confused’ 2014-02-13T15:08:48Z

The first “Imaginary Monuments” were huge etchings of proposed monuments to a wild variety of people and causes: national parks, football, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harvey Milk, all the countries the United States has ever bombed. Art to See This Fall 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

And with a wealth of targets to catch up on, I’m glad the show is getting another chance to erect a monument to the American id. TV Tonight: Beavis and Butt-Head Return 2011-10-27T10:53:47Z

That's why she came back to New Mexico after two coin flips at the Four Corners monument told her to flee to Colorado. "Breaking Bad" 4x6, "Cornered" 2011-08-22T09:23:00Z

But the change we seek isn't to turn the Black life you took into monuments for Black Lives Matter. Monuments to Black lives have no value without justice and meaningful change 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

Phillipson said the piece, whose unveiling was postponed by four months due to the coronavirus pandemic, was a “monument to hubris and impending collapse” but also symbolized the hope of renewal. Ominous whipped cream art comes to London’s Trafalgar Square 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

The library with its books, monument to a moment in British history and to a valiant attempt to redeem one of the most disadvantaged areas in London, was obliterated. Germaine Greer: Reading rooms are an oasis 2010-09-05T21:29:00Z

Rather than replace the monument at the top of the 90-foot-tall column, Ms. Leigh will position her figure on the ground beside the towering column for several months as a temporary counterpoint. A Show With Its Host City, New Orleans, as the Protagonist 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

She conceded Wilson to PAFA, where he has made alternative kinds of monuments. What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Images of the desert, the bottle tree farm, and Mr. Knight’s colorful monument stayed with me as I left Niland and drove toward the Mexican border, planning to loop around to San Diego. A Road Trip to Death Valley: Salt Flats, Chilly Nights and Kitsch 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Confederate monuments, like their Communist bronze and granite comrades in Budapest, are kitsch. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The Nuremberg judgments upon such diabolical Nazi crimes as the extermination of the Jews will still stand as a monument to international justice. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

And seasoned veterans like James Toler are desperate to ensure that monument incorporates the artistic expression of the real men and women who fought in this war. 10 striking images of graffiti in Kandahar 2014-01-05T13:00:00Z

The monument, situated between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials in what the designers call a "line of leadership," was 15 years in the making. Obama: King 'stirred our conscience' 2011-10-16T17:57:00Z

“You can see the past and the future,” Chin says, “just like the monument reflected in the water.” The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Each of the glass accents looks deep-blue when you look straight down, standing over the monument. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z

Panini was known for his atmospheric views of Roman monuments, often painted alongside each other in imagined settings. Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Every year, millions of tourists come to Washington to seek inspiration — in marble monuments to the nation’s heroes and leaders, in temples of democracy and civic power. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

In April, President Trump issued an executive order calling for a review of 27 monuments. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The U.S. government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles of the southern border in California and Arizona through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according to documents and environmental advocates. National park and refuge in Arizona at risk as border wall plans continue 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the way of human grief, I want, instead of honoring the tree directly, to conjure up the world in which it was a monument for me. The Death of the Tunnel Tree 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

And most of these ancient cities and monuments were abandoned some six centuries before the Spaniards plundered the region. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z

In January, Thomas’s 19-ton bronze monument to the Kings — inspired by a photo of the couple after Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 — was criticized and mocked online. Creator of Divisive King Monument Builds Sculpture for Super Bowl 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

In these narratives, the supermarket stands as a monument to consumer culture. The Grocery Store of the Mind 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Tudor Evans, the leader of Plymouth city council, said using taxpayers' money for the monument had never been an option in these tough economic times. Michael Foot portrait to be auctioned for Plymouth memorial fund 2013-07-18T21:12:18Z

Along the way, signs pointed out paths to mysterious prehistoric burial and prayer sites called talayots and navatas, from the Bronze Age and earlier, built of stones arranged into T-shaped monuments or igloo-like structures. Minorca, Off the Coast of Spain, Is a Tranquil Biosphere Reserve 2012-04-13T17:28:35Z

History is complex, but the Lee monument sanitizes the past. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The weird symbolism in Jo Baer’s paintings fuse the grays of her early Minimalist abstractions with visions of Irish myths and monuments. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Letters can be thrown away, slurs dismissed – but the internet not only facilitates the act of harassment itself, it becomes a monument of harassment a victim must endure whenever they are online. She fights every 'troll, psycho and perv' she can find – and uses the law to do it 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

In Athens, whose monuments were far less well known to French audiences than those of Rome, Girault made more full-size daguerreotypes than anywhere else. An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

"You can go and visit the wreck and go and see this monument to human folly." Titanic's legacy: A fascination with disasters 2012-03-31T22:31:05Z

I was surprised to learn the lava tubes at the monument were studied by researchers in the 1970s because of their similarities to formations on the moon. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

New York is a city of landmarks: world famous skyscrapers, grand monuments and cultural icons. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

His works also show up as cemetery monuments. ‘Rinehart’s Studio’ Puts a 19th-Century Sculptor’s Career in Perspective 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

“But it’s such an apropos subject given the discourses that are happening now around re-evaluating monuments, certainly in the context of the U.S. It’s important that those conversations happen here as well.” Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

There is even a hint of the embalmed body of Lenin, immured in its monument in Red Square, for ever signifying to those who file by it the passing away of a collective dream. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z

The term refers to a lighthouse, which in Avery’s depiction is a spindly stack of many kinds of buildings, including monument, windmill and tumbledown shack. In the galleries: Tales from the dark side — of Canada 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Father State is a colossal monument, dictator-sized and fully as bombastic. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z

"I was intrigued by that monument," he recalls. Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z

As a shy 10-year-old, I would practise his grandiose speeches and even more grandiose gestures from Moonstruck in front of the mirror: “I ain’t no freaking monument to justice!” Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

In the past, a smaller road ran even closer to the monument, allowing visitors to park their cars nearby. Road blighting Stonehenge to be buried in solstice-compliant plan 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

After the armistice, the French government disbursed funds to every city, town, village and hamlet in France for the purpose of constructing a monument to its war dead. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

As historian Kevin Waite pointed out in an op-ed in The Times, California, too, is home to Confederate monuments — including one in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

It did not suggest reducing the size of the monument. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

This new monument is part of a growing body of evidence which shows how important the summer and winter solstices were to the ancient peoples who built Stonehenge. Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away 2010-07-22T09:52:00Z

“Delaney avoids the temptation to treat Joyce as a petrified object, a monument,” Mr. Taylor wrote. Frank Delaney, 74, Author Whose Passion Was Deconstructing Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’ Dies 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

One Bunker Hill was envisioned as a monument to energy. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Such museums are monuments, temples mythically recounting an empire’s origins, displaying its accomplishments, affirming its power and its encyclopedic grasp. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

Bidders responded to this monument of old Contemporary art. Auctions: Stellar Auction at Sotheby's for Some Classics of Contemporary Art 2011-05-10T11:30:05Z

POMPEII, Italy — Despite its name, the Villa of the Mysteries, arguably the best-known monument at the archaeological site here buried by Vesuvian fury in A.D. Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“In zoos they constitute the living monument to their own disappearance.” 10 Great Movies at the New York Film Festival You Can (Mostly) See Online 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

A long list of Republican and Democratic presidents have created national monuments under the authority of the century-old Antiquities Act. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

From the Lincoln Memorial, one looks down the long expanse of the Mall to the Capitol, at the base of which is a monument to Ulysses S. Grant, who won the war against the South. Perspective | Forget the tanks. Trump’s violation of the Lincoln Memorial is the real offense. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Campbell, too, saw the monument as a pile of building material, but when his laborers removed some of the stones, they discovered the entrance to what they assumed was a cave. Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

“I think of it in terms of people,” she said of her monument. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Like the man himself, Scorsese’s home is a monument to moviemaking. Martin Scorsese Is Letting Go 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

The imposing capital city, Valletta, is a monument to this hard-fought past. Malta: A citadel of many cultures in the middle of the Mediterranean 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Mostly, discussions are related to Civil War monuments — in Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia and Texas — following the 2015 mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

He also had a Bach monument, which still stands near St. Thomas, erected in 1843. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s difficult to say which is doing more,” Mr. Allen said, “but the two together are nearly toxic for the preservation of monuments.” After Ravages of Time and War, Triage to Save Ruins of Babylon 2011-01-03T01:33:08Z

Over lamb tagine and couscous, they learned about the country’s history and the ancient monuments they would be visiting, followed by a question-and-answer session. 2010-02-12T17:54:00Z

Penrose later wrote a biography of Picasso that is a monument to this hero worship. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z

The former California governor traveled to the Indian city of Agra on Friday, the one day each week the monument is closed to tourists because of Muslim prayers at a nearby mosque. Schwarzenegger visits Taj Mahal, finds it closed 2012-02-03T11:59:08Z

The French are enthusiastic and expert about floodlighting their great monuments. Lovely summer evenings in Europe 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

In 2018, a judge denied the city’s claim to own the monument because no one else had claimed it. Protesters in Virginia cover Confederate monument with trash bags 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

The golden palace that the Emperor Nero built as a monument to himself after half of ancient Rome was consumed by fire is reopening to the public even though its renovation isn't finished yet. Nero's buried golden palace to open to the public - in hard hats 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

At the end, I confess, I felt like Rowling, who said about finishing her monument of writing, "I never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z

"Those in power build monuments to reflect themselves and the people that they look up to," Monument Lab Director Paul Farber said in an interview at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Cultural connection or disconnect: What I found to be the most memorable in Egypt was not the great pyramid or another ancient monument, but rather the people. Captivated by Egypt since childhood, a traveler finally visits the Great Pyramid 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Last year, Britain’s culture minister, Oliver Dowden, outlined a “retain and explain” policy for controversial monuments, after campaigners toppled a statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England. Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Under the discussed proposal, the Bloomberg article said, some of the monuments would return to Athens temporarily, in exchange for other ancient treasures. After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

I took my time walking toward the first major monument, the Temple of Apollo, as scores of visitors scurried past. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

“Our mission is to bring people together through excellent music and conversation. This monuments project is a perfect fit.” Two women lead a free tour of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments each month. A new website lets everyone listen. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But I remember when Chris Reitz, a University of Louisville professor, curator and public monuments committee member, raised the astute question, "Would we erect a monument to this person today?" What's in a name? Shedding racist images and branding is just the start of breaking the Jemima Code 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Cities are littered with Confederate monuments, which this Yankee first took for the shining bones of a long-dead ideology. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

A few blocks away, the Customs House sprawled in neoclassical grandeur, a monument to the wealth that once fueled the West Indies. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The programs ask people to report suspicious behavior in train stations, airports, national monuments, and even Walmart stores. ‘See something, say something’ culture is dangerous: How it spawns Islamophobia and keeps America insecure 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

Thus outfitted, he posed in front of famous monuments like Mount Rushmore and the Eiffel Tower and natural wonders like Niagara Falls and the Canadian Rockies. Review: Tseng Kwong Chi’s Darkly Comic Images at Grey Art Gallery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The petition was started amid other calls to remove monuments, logos and brand names with problematic histories and racist connotations following the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in police custody. 'Flavortown': Thousands sign petition to rename Columbus, Ohio, after Guy Fieri's fictional food utopia 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kirk of Duke suggested that people in Durham, N.C. — where one statue was pulled down and another was defaced — could brainstorm about monuments that might be substituted for those that were removed. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

This brief, gorgeously shot documentary profiles Vince Hanneman, who has spent years constructing The Cathedral Of Junk, a vast live-in monument of unwanted items – hubcaps, dolls heads, even the odd prosthetic leg – in Austin, Texas. Catch-up TV Guide: From The Rumble In The Air-Conditioned Auditorium to Portlandia 2012-10-12T23:05:30Z

In light of the rotten roles she didn’t take and the good roles she couldn’t get, Moreno’s career is a monument to strength and versatility. Rita Moreno on strength, stamina and the power of a killer body

The Atlanta History Center offers an entire page on its website with suggestions to help local historians, including adding placards with detailed information about the monuments’ original intent. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Griffin tells the passengers near the end that "I think I've shown you everything except Wythenshawe", well aware that a tour of its architectural monuments isn't enough to explain a place. On the white bus to Wythenshawe – council housing by design 2012-05-22T16:16:13Z

On Thursday, authorities in the southern city of Pau were alerted to damage to a monument celebrating France’s abolition of slavery. Monument honoring abolition of slavery vandalized in France 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

History’s habit of erecting monuments to women, and then dismantling them just as quickly, is well known to us: from Cleopatra to Hillary Clinton, Queen Esther to Whitney Houston. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

But now the general public has become more aware of it, in part thanks to recent debates over Confederate and other Civil War monuments. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

He distributed a list of Roman monuments in need of restoration and appealed for expertise and money from abroad — as much as $270 million. To Some Dismay, Italy Enlists Donors to Repair Monuments 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The best of such cinematic monuments have banished the distraction of mimicry altogether: Witness Cate Blanchett’s sly, androgynous turn as Bob Dylan in the appropriately enigmatic, audaciously experimental biopic “I’m Not There.” Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

And I think that, through this piece, you have a monument that is always asking, 'What was the Battle of Trafalgar? Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' 2013-07-24T18:29:00Z

His legacy endures in museums, monuments, schools and churches in Brazil and beyond. Architect Niemeyer dies aged 104 2012-12-06T16:30:31Z

Classical architecture provided the models for many commemorative monuments. Big Rethinking: Classicism in the U.K. After World War I 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Like many Confederate monuments, the Charlottesville statue dates to a period after the First World War when racist Jim Crow laws were being amped up in America. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The splintered wood evokes a monument, a memorial. “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

The premiere vacillates between the urges to create and to demolish in order to build what Ms. Workum describes in press materials as a “shifting and temporary monument.” Dance in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Now that the World Trade Center has become a martyr to terrorism, I suspect that architectural criticism of it will cease altogether. It has become a noble monument of a lost past.” Sunday Reading: Cityscapes 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Watching this play is like taking an extended tour around a tragic monument. Private Lives; Berenice; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – review 2012-10-06T23:05:38Z

It plucks two figures from history and imagines them as they once were, when they were people instead of monuments to American exceptionalism. Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Architects and historians combine to admire the squares and crescents of honey-coloured stone which spill down the hillside from Lister's velvet and silk mill, one of the largest monuments to Britain's textile trade. Manningham gets English Heritage guide 2010-06-25T10:23:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement Unlike the Great Wall, a monument to China’s strenuous efforts to keep outsiders at bay, ancient Dunhuang was inclusive, a fitting theme for the contemporary era of China’s global reach. 1,000 Years of Art at the Edge of the Gobi Desert 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kalman’s images are almost invariably based, to some degree, on photographs — whether of art, events, accomplished people or famous monuments — sometimes taken by Ms. Kalman herself. Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The palaces built by this commerce are monuments not just to luxury but prudence. Venice has the battle against extreme weather down to a fine art 2012-11-12T15:37:27Z

As monuments to wealth, however, few objects in the show can top the exquisitely hand-illuminated books in a section on printing. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z

They deserved their own movie monument, which Clooney has generously and artfully given them. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z

The piece is intended as a thoughtful riposte to the square's military monuments. Rocking horse and rooster set for Trafalgar Square 2011-01-14T12:32:08Z

Gold Butte was deemed worthy of monument designation for historical and cultural assets but also for environmental and conservation reasons. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Others are more universal, as in “The Tower,” a slow-building epic describing a home that became a monument to failed romance. Musical Survivor Hustles for a Second Chance 2011-02-08T21:54:19Z

“The mural project leaves a historical monument to our athletes’ spirit, determination and courage,” long after the games end, said Patrick McClenahan, president and chief executive of the Special Olympics organizing committee LA2015. Three new L.A. murals celebrate Special Olympics World Games 2015 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Connors has already identified a sculpture in the show that could be a local favorite: the funerary monument of the ancestor of a duke who gave his name in 1706 to Albuquerque. Spanish Treasures Overlooked in New York Find Love in Madrid 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

One of the most inspiring sights in the Czech Republic is neither a museum nor a monument, but instead a graffiti-covered wall in Prague. Quirky European sights, from Lennon ‘love wall’ to salt mines 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Wolfe expressed hope that the monument would be a place for reflection, education "and sober thought." UN seeks designs for memorial to slavery victims 2011-09-30T22:50:08Z

That statue was removed last year; three other Confederate monuments in the city received the same fate. A Canopy of Peace will rise in New Orleans at WWII museum 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

‘I grew up in the shadow of a national monument,” the star of the extraordinary HBO documentary “Jane Fonda in Five Acts” announces early on. Encountering Jane Fonda 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

The Schomburg is as much a monument to an idea as it is a library, tourist draw and multifaceted cultural center. Howard Dodson Say Schomburg Center Won?t Move 2010-07-30T23:27:00Z

Its monuments, memorials and staged events contribute to a larger national narrative about identity, reflecting the meanings of democracy and citizenship. A nation divided: Comparing Trump’s inauguration to those of the past 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The emperor spared no expense for the now iconic monument: More than 20,000 sculptors, calligraphers, and craftsmen were brought to the city of Agra to work on the marble-clad masterpiece. 5 Incredible Landmarks Built in the Name of Love 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

His parents were Italian immigrants, his father a sculptor who specialized in funerary monuments for a largely Roman Catholic clientele. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Sometimes they appear in great congregations on a sloping hillside; other times they poke up flamboyantly as psychedelic-colored exhibitionists from the base of a tree; or as solitary, stately monuments, like this one. "You never forget spotting your first mushroom in a Finnish forest": My day with the Mushroom Queen 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

In the recent series titled “Time Slice Global,” Silver captures multiple photographs of architectural monuments at sunset. Photographer Richard Silver “Slices” Architectural Monuments At Sunset 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The people have erected monuments, artful and passionate testimonies to the change they want to see. In the name of the movement: Black Lives Matter Plaza, Breonna Taylor and the long road to justice 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

After a public outcry, the government scrambled to protect the building, which was declared a protected monument in 2008. Heads Up: The King Yin Lei Mansion in Hong Kong Is Saved 2011-04-29T18:55:00Z

Yet the greatest monument to Louis XIV is Versailles itself. When Branding Was Fit for a King 2009-12-15T22:06:58Z

In the heart of the city, near the central train station, rises a monument from a different era: Giò Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi’s Pirelli skyscraper, the symbol of Italy’s postwar economic boom. New Venues Put Milan on the Contemporary Art Map 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Almost immediately, they began planning a monument in their memory, commissioning an impressive stele to be unveiled in the village center on the first anniversary of their deaths. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The vast blocks of polystyrene foam at the heart of Ms. Walker’s sphinxlike monument have been cut up and cleaned and taken away for recycling by its supplier, the Insulation Corporation of America. ‘Marvelous Sugar Baby’ as a Contribution to Ephemeral Art 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

It is possible to think of the jar as a monument, or memorial. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

His pessimism, however, seems misplaced: In fact, it is because the cathedral remains incomplete, more dream than reality, that it becomes the ultimate monument to the modern. A Fortress to Faith — or Faith’s Undoing? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Erhard Grundl, a Green Party lawmaker, called for a specific monument for the religious group in a speech to parliament on Jan. 13. Jehovah’s Witnesses Sue German Museum for Archive of Nazi-Era Abuses 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

He showed them the White House, the monuments and, far in the distance, the top of Arlington Cemetery. Why would you make a hotel less trendy? Behold, the Hotel Washington. 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

No one would want to lightly dismiss the feelings of these families, but is the monument exclusively for them? How much bearing should private grief have on public art? 2011-03-10T13:00:04Z

Together they form a strange gaggle of maladjusted outcasts standing on the western edge of the city: an estranged monument to Luzhkov's lust for iconic buildings. Russia's Mercury City tower cuts the Shard down to size 2012-11-05T16:46:00Z

The nonprofit American War Memorials Overseas has a useful website, a valuable resource for anyone interested in American World War I monuments and memorials in France. In France, Artifacts of America’s Role in World War I 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The government said the proposed tunnel would closely follow the existing A303 route, but a further 50 meters away from the monument to avoid any such damage. Road blighting Stonehenge to be buried in solstice-compliant plan 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Then, in October, the foundation announced its $250 million Monuments Project, which is meant to help reimagine the country’s approach to monuments and memorials, in an effort to better reflect the nation’s diversity. Mellon Foundation to Fund Diversity Programs at Library of Congress 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The festival is held in the historic Diggi Palace Hotel, a great home base for exploring the food and monuments of this historic, colorful city. These Are the Best Places to Travel in January 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Busts of Marti appear everywhere in Cuba, Havana’s international airport is named after him, and there is a towering monument to him in Havana’s Revolution Square. Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The report says that of the 50 individuals represented most frequently by monuments in this country, 88 percent are white men, and half were slave owners. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s certainly no monument to art — or dance. Dance Review: Russell Maliphant’s ‘Rodin Project’ at the Joyce 2012-12-07T20:43:01Z

The biggest of them leads from the heart of One New Change to St Paul's Cathedral, framing studied views of Wren's enduring monument. One New Change: never brown in town 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z

Stanford is right to remark on all the strange and diverse monuments that clutter its paths. How to Read a Graveyard by Peter Stanford – review 2013-05-03T18:00:03Z

Rejecting how public monuments are typically displayed, Wearing chose not to place her piece on a platform, a strategy Thomas J. Price also employed for “Witness.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

In other words, it complies with rule 18: Build mental monuments. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-18T10:57:05Z

On Memorial Day, several hundred people turned out to dedicate the monument and marvel at the names of all of the veterans with ties to Olivia. A town didn’t have a veterans memorial. So this teen designed and built one. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

National monuments, I learned, are usually smaller than national parks, preserve at least one nationally significant resource, and are designated by presidential proclamation rather than congressional vote. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Cranes and scaffolding still flank the ornate spires of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi’s most famous monument, which draws some 20 million visitors a year. Sagrada Familia cathedral gets building license 130 years after... 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Twenty-five years after the country peacefully won independence from the former Yugoslavia, its capital is in the midst of a huge face-lift: the construction of some 40 monuments, sculptures, facades and buildings. Gems, Hidden in Plain Sight in Macedonia 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

In January, Boston will unveil its own monument to Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who met as students in Boston. New Faces, New Places, as Boston Gets Revitalized 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Macron’s government has said it will crack down harder on unauthorized protests and get tougher on anyone who loots or vandalizes shops and monuments. Dior switches Paris catwalk date to avoid 'yellow vest' protests 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The great natural monument, lichen dappled and framed within a modest clearing, always surprises me when I approach it. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

Paris Design Week runs from Thursday through Sept. 17, with scores of exhibitions and events weaving through museums, monuments, parks, plazas, galleries and shops. Celebrating Creators of Design 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

From music to movies, canceled podcasts to toppled monuments, our writers take stock of the culture we shared in the year after George Floyd’s murder. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Censer, the George Mason professor, remembers proposing the relocation of some publicly placed monuments back into private cemeteries — reclaiming the memorialization that was the original goal of the monuments. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

With iconic monuments destroyed and works of architecture in ruins, the extraordinary effort that followed to salvage, preserve, and rebuild deserves our remembrance. Rising from the Ashes 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

In managing the monument, the National Park Service aims to protect the geology, biodiversity and recreational opportunities in the area, and minimize the effects of a changing climate. Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Activists have targeted the monument since the 1970s; in recent years, they have tried shrouding the sculpture with a parachute and defacing it with red paint. Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removal Begins at Museum of Natural History 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

While mostly omitting his family from his will, he left money for a monument to himself. Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Unlike sculpture, civic monuments are less the product of an individual artist than they are collaborations of entire societies. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

We continue to reckon with our flags and our monuments, and there are reckonings elsewhere, too. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

"These homes should stand as monuments of creativity and something positive in the neighborhood," he said. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z

Ms. Faustine seems to be rejecting the traditional monument form for not making room for those complications. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

There were, of course, scores of cathedrals, castles and monuments to explore along the way — if time and energy allowed, which unfortunately they did not for us. Going to great lengths: Cycling Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, or key monuments at Gettysburg? Why we must respect the sacred at Standing Rock 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is the latest in a series of environmental initiatives mounted by Patagonia, which in 2017 organized efforts to protect the Bears Ears national monument in Utah and then sued the federal government over it. 'We're the bad guy': inside the shocking new film about wild fish 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In the shadow of his massive addition, Wiley told The Associated Press about his thoughts on Confederate monuments, if he’s become more political and where he goes from here. Artist Kehinde Wiley on what we can do with offensive art 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Work is beginning to transform the area around Stonehenge from a "national embarrassment" into a tranquil setting for one of the world's great prehistoric monuments. Stonehenge gets £27m facelift to end 'national embarrassment' 2012-07-11T11:00:01Z

Days after Mr. Obama’s July 2015 designation, wildfires raged across Napa and Lake counties, eventually engulfing 100,000 acres by the end of the summer, including much of the landscape earmarked for the monument. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

"Stonehenge is one of the most studied monuments on Earth but this demonstrates that there is still much more to be found." Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away 2010-07-22T09:52:00Z

We only seem to see the historic monuments and rich heritage of premodern art that are found all over the British Isles when these treasures are repackaged and re-presented as modern culture. Why do we need a light show to see Hadrian's Wall? 2012-08-23T14:59:31Z

A tarp was placed around the monument, concealing the graffiti, the newspaper said, but later signs were placed over the tarp that read "All lives matter #charlestonunited" and "Take down racist statues." Jefferson Memorial, Confederate statues enter national race debate 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The United Daughters of the Confederacy were responsible for airbrushing Confederate history and erecting monuments to the civil war in the 20th century. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

The walkways around the parking lot and Rockefeller monument at Newfound Gap will be partially closed from Aug. 4 until Sept. 30 while preservation crew to reset and re-grout the flagstone walks. Historic structures Smoky Mountains renovated 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Michael Peppiatt, a friend and biographer of Bacon, said in a telephone interview that, “Like his taste for the very great artists, like Michelangelo and Velásquez, his literary icons also tended to be monuments.” Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

With Russia actively trying to erase Ukraine’s national identity, this country’s music, literature, movies and monuments are not recreations. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

In its brief citation the Swedish Academy, cited Alexievich “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The lack of a Foot monument in Plymouth three years after his death is a cause for sadness and frustration among his many friends and admirers in Devon. Michael Foot portrait to be auctioned for Plymouth memorial fund 2013-07-18T21:12:18Z

Nonetheless, lifting the monument status would open the land up to other possible uses. A Call to Activism for Outdoor Apparel Makers 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bassett said the team had found not only destruction caused by conflict there, but also construction of new monuments. Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Since then, memorial commissions have created major monuments to the Korean and Second World wars. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

I never thought punk rock was supposed to be about heritage, or monuments, or even bricks and mortar. Punks, what's your problem? The 100 Club was past its prime 2010-09-27T14:46:00Z

“She called herself an old monument and a lot of Afghans called her the ‘Grandmother of Afghanistan,'” said Wahid Wafa, Executive Director of the Afghanistan Centre. Nancy Hatch Dupree 'Grandmother of Afghanistan' dies in Kabul 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

All these are, indisputably, monuments of world literature, but as answers they fizzle. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

“The Confederate monuments are meant to convey a message that we value the history of oppression,” said Adrienne Edwards, the Walker’s visual arts curator at large. Trump Aside, Artists and Preservationists Debate the Rush to Topple Statues 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

You know — museums, monuments, and culturally significant buildings. Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn’t a road trip. It’s a family culinary tour. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The question about who owns the monument has been the main roadblock in the city’s years-long effort to remove it. Protesters in Virginia cover Confederate monument with trash bags 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Lives and memories, the history of a city were held in this powerful monument. Lost art comes back to haunt us 2012-06-06T12:10:18Z

Surprisingly it’s the city’s only real monument to the novel. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

It could be seen a shrine to himself, but more likely it’s a monument to his heritage — or some of it. In the Galleries: Creating objects of power

In August, Rees spoke powerfully about the violence that had just taken place in Charlottesville where white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters over the removal of confederate monuments in the American south. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

“That is the part of our history that these monuments testify to.” Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s not extreme temperatures that threaten glass monuments, but rather fluctuations. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z

Cities across the country are reconsidering monuments of all stripes, from paeans to Confederate generals to triumphal depictions of colonialists. Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor was game for the project after spending seven years photographing the 276 cast-iron and stone monuments, now lonely, that defined the present-day border before the fence was built. Between Tijuana and San Diego, an Art Ethos Thrives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a monument that honors the dead, but is living, changing, growing. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

“If we want to reconstruct ancient society and learn how it developed, we cannot just look at palatial sites and monuments,” Dr. Cosmopoulos explained. Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, officials said they are already preparing to host a celebration for the Oscar wins at the monument, known as “the Angel.” Mexico City prepares to celebrate Oscar wins for ‘Roma’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

By the time the monument leaves for Virginia, Ms. Cooney estimated, 15 million people will have walked through the intersection where it stands. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

They’re monuments to a richer, busier city that reached its population zenith on the cusp of the Depression, at almost twice the size it is today. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Liu's previous "Hiding in the City" series featured him hidden in plain sight against monuments, murals, buildings and scenes of daily life in Beijing, Venice, New York and elsewhere. Artist Liu Bolin live streams Beijing smog to raise awareness 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

The monument will include the figures of Albro Lyons, Mary Joseph Lyons and their daughter Maritcha Lyons, who was significant in her own right as a teacher, suffragist and racial justice activist. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monuments at an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and others previously overlooked. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The neglected monuments give the park a science-fiction feel and provide an interesting crosscurrent to the bustle of the park as a haven for hard-working immigrants at play. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, a Borough?s Backyard 2011-08-25T23:54:43Z

Neither monument, however, recalls the many casualties of smallpox, and this says a great deal about what we choose to remember. North America’s forgotten plague 2013-05-04T18:00:00Z

It’s a remarkable collection of monuments and memorials for her and all sorts of people — Burns, Keats, Shelley and many writers of Austen’s period. Q&A: Navigating England’s Literary Landscape 2013-06-27T14:46:58Z

As for the monuments, they were iconic from tea towels. Literature of journeys: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser 2013-07-15T11:56:45Z

Does the hope philodendron know anything of the impeachment trial, of the national monuments in Utah sold off for drilling rights, of the children in cages at the border? My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

She wanted the federal government to move the White House and the monuments to her neighborhood. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The monument is at once gorgeous and terrifying. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The sculpture is also, incidentally, a monument to the absurdities of sexism. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Organized by Iria Candela, the museum’s curator of Latin American art, it’s a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence. What’s That on the Met’s Roof Garden? A Big, Beautiful Wall 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Murray said the Dinosaur case is only one example of Trump administration decisions that will harm national parks and monuments. Drilling Near Dinosaur National Monument Draws Criticism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The fragment is accompanied by eight large and fascinating drawings for the monument in which Bouchardon analyzed the horse and rider as anatomical creatures — their physicality, posture and material bearing. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

In her 2013 video piece “Holocaust Memorial,” Weems moves reverently between the pillars of the Berlin monument, “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe,” clapping and swaying her arms. Blending Dance and Sculpture Creates a Fresh View of Art 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

On Monday, Notre-Dame, a precious French monument and one of the most beloved cathedrals in the world, went up in flames. Bob Staake’s “Our Lady” 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

“We just hope that whatever monument they put in is designed in such a way that it will respect the people whose remains are there as well as the historic nature of the park.” Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Some locations also offer daytime and twilight kayak and paddleboard tours of the monuments. Rediscovering Washington, D.C. — on a stand-up paddleboard 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

But how much of an egomaniac must you be to choose distinction over happiness, fame over love, making your own monument over doing right here? EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z

But if you think of the wall as not so much a physical deterrent to migrants as a symbolic monument to nativist ambitions, President Trump’s implacable devotion to it begins to make sense. New Looks at the Fate of Foreigners in America, From the Privileged to the Most Vulnerable 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

In an open area to the side of the pavilion lie duplicates of all the inscribed monuments. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

I asked Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, about what kinds of questions the monument audit might answer. Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

“The Pieces I Am” is an inspired and beautiful monument. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

But the monument to Campbell was three years in the making, and the British government announced its commitment to honoring the Windrush generation in 2018. In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

But one day, Gormley will be recognised as a monument to the dodgy taste of our age. Antony Gormley: a model of hype? 2012-11-27T13:14:27Z

As I watched “I Married an Angel,” the wan Encores! offering that opened on Wednesday night at New York City Center, my mind kept flashing to debates about Confederate monuments. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

So I used that same type of thinking to create the monument to Kafka.” On the Trail of Kafka in Prague 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

“It’s a monument to all of those things, and there is joy in that.” Reimagining Lady Liberty’s Torch to Meet This Moment 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

She was Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood,” without the landscape of such a monument. What Did That Oscars Show Say About Movies? Our Critics Puzzle It Out. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Some of the money will also be channeled into providing direct access to the monument and expanding its current entrances, the council said in a statement. Sagrada Familia cathedral gets building license 130 years after... 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The civil rights activist Sojourner Truth was later added to the monument, which now stands a few blocks south of Bethesda Fountain. Decades After the Central Park Jogger Attack, a City Marks Its Mistake 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

He unpacks 19th-century novels, paintings and monuments, as well as dozens of bleak photographs placed within the text in a manner that recalls the dreaminess of Sebald. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

In recent years, there has been a global push to remove statues and monuments of racist historical figures. A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

You could say they are monuments to bygone days, an era when the United States and Canada weren’t getting along. Near Niagara Falls, U.S. and Canadian forts from the War of 1812 still face off 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

“The beauty of monuments as a rubric is, it’s really a way of asking, ‘How do we say who we are? Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Creating a monument to the beautiful, complex and diverse history of rock and pop is an exceedingly difficult task. It’s not all about you, Bruce and Bono: This is why the Rock Hall is so lame 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

In atonement, along with concerted efforts at remembrance, Germans are continually reminded of the country’s Nazi horrors in monuments, landmarks and public art. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The line, the film, the film's cast, the book and its author all went on to become aspects of what has proved to be an enduring cultural monument. In praise of ? Gone With the Wind 2010-09-01T23:01:00Z

A monument stands nearby — as does another, smaller one at Casement’s Fort, where Ms. O’Carroll took me next. In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

For her Met Roof Garden commission opening Tuesday, the artist Lauren Halsey created a monument to friends, family and South Central Los Angeles, where she lives. Met’s Beloved Roof Garden Draws on Ancient Egypt and South Central L.A. 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

"No Roman monument was built so that it would last for eternity," Ms. Barbera said, adding that was the duty of modern conservators "to prolong its life." ArtsBeat: Colosseum Won't Be Restored in a Day, but Work Is Finally Scheduled to Start 2012-07-31T16:53:09Z

A triangular monument in Triangle Park on a triangular plot of land is more than a pleasing coincidence of geometry. New York’s Necessary New AIDS Memorial 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Whatever becomes of the monument designation — as I was told by both its supporters and by others who are undecided or agnostic — stepped-up protections and far more public education are a crucial need. At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Before his remarks, he left signed copies of his inaugural speech and 2008 convention address in a time capsule at the monument site. Obama: King 'stirred our conscience' 2011-10-16T17:57:00Z

On today’s campuses, the battles are often fought over monuments themselves. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

She said she was often asked when showing or discussing the monuments work in Romania: “‘What happens if you leave these images alone? When One Dancer Is a Ghost in the Room 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The 1900s and 1910s were banner years for such acts of reverence, coinciding with a spike in construction of monuments celebrating Confederate soldiers and leaders. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Al Mahdi’s conviction was the first at the global court for destruction of religious buildings or historic monuments, and the first guilty verdict delivered against a Muslim extremist. ICC judges cut Muslim radical’s sentence in Timbuktu case 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

The Female Eunuch, like The Second Sex, is a monument to this nuanced and melancholic form of personal heroism. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

Across the country, but primarily in the former East Germany, there are more than 4,000 protected monuments to their memory. For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z

Then Stevenson took the helm as the director and public face of a narrative museum and monument to lynching in his adopted city of Montgomery. Bryan Stevenson: the lawyer devoting his life to fighting injustice 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Designation as a monument increases public awareness of areas. Campaign against Trump’s threat to US national monuments gathers pace 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Celebrating the famed explorer and his holiday obscures a racial genocide, much like other monuments that were toppled across the country. The Redskins will change their name. What's next for Indigenous decolonization? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It took some winnowing, as there are numerous parks and monuments to visit. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

In my view, it’s crucial to defining what both a museum of history and a monument to history can be. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Only the monument to the Richmond-born tennis great, Arthur Ashe, remains. For Richmond, a Compelling New Chapter 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

The new pieces at Alexander Gray are also monuments, but of a different kind: tombs. Siah Armajani: ‘The Tomb Series’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“We historians, in the wake of the controversy over Confederate monuments, we have to use this as a teachable moment,” Chernow says. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

In its final chapters, Gorra compares America’s monuments to the Confederacy with Germany’s memorials to the Holocaust. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

When the monument was expanded, the region's timber industry immediately raised alarms, with one local company, Murphy Co., filing federal suit and arguing the designation is hurting its bottom line. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Since the founding of the park in 1894 there have been monuments for Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Will the Eisenhower memorial be the last of the great man monuments? Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

It makes a fitting monument to a man who loved his art so much he believed it almost amounted to a faith requiring its own clergy. A Temple of Drama, Burnished 2010-08-28T02:45:00Z

Chortens, voluptuous monuments built to expiate sin, stand on seemingly every corner. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

It evoked a block of stone in the process of being shaped, offering hope of monuments ahead. Review | NSO season opener shows that Noseda isn’t focused on blockbusters, but basics 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He called for the creation of a foundation with foreign trustees, including art historians and academics, that would draft a restoration plan based on a list of monuments in need of work. To Some Dismay, Italy Enlists Donors to Repair Monuments 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The chef’s first foray into the Miami-area dining scene is on the property of the Jazz Age monument the Surf Club. Traditional and Updated Korean at Hwaban in the Flatiron District 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Yet her pioneering work is all but unrecognized in the city, which has no shortage of statues and monuments to leading white men. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

“And in a revolutionary moment, the surest, quickest way to attack the old regime, to attack the old dispensation, is to attack the monuments.” Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

In her most recent set of pictures, Faustine approaches American history from the opposite angle, photographing iconic national monuments like the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial. A Living Monument to the Ghosts of American Slavery 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

There are 84 national monuments in the United States and nine in New Mexico, the second-highest number after Arizona. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

But though its main monuments are not under threat, many houses and smaller buildings are being demolished. 'Blindsided by the beauty': architects struggle to save Cairo's... 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Knowing that Mr. Nishi’s work often involves urban monuments, Mr. Baume had asked him several years ago to come up with some ideas for a project in New York. Inside Art: Dia Outlines Plan for Building in Chelsea 2012-05-24T22:00:00Z

He is paraphrasing the title of Linda Nochlin’s monument of feminist art history, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Art Review: Before the Rebellion, Playful Pop Art Novelty 2010-10-14T21:54:00Z

That the “team” who lit Paris bridges, monuments and boulevards with surgical knives of illumination in the 1980s was led by a single genius, François Jousse. A Book Full of Reasons to Love Paris 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

So the Dakota people basically saw something that looked like a monument to their massacre. Artist Sam Durant was pressured into taking down his 'Scaffold.' Why doesn't he feel censored? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Officially listed as a historic monument, this school turned mansion was built in 1718 in the Pantheon historic quarter in Paris’s 5th arrondissement. Tour an 18th-Century Mansion in Paris 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

A July 2018 report, commissioned by Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney, called in particular for the possible replacement of the Davis monument, as “the most unabashedly Lost Cause” in its design and message. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Washington is awash in monuments to past presidents. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z

That history and meaning, however, are deeply tied to the monuments’ aesthetic form, Ater says. Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Whether the shrine is a conserved Buddhist monument or a neglected commercial structure, Day finds the moment at which the subject appears most otherworldly. In the galleries: Scenes of nature with allusions to religious art 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Which is why Sir Victor Sassoon needs no official monument in Shanghai. The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

He also questions the validity of a monument – is it a way of laying history to rest, rather than continuing to discuss it? TV highlights 23/05/2012 2012-05-22T18:59:01Z

One in danger – Bradford Conditioning House – is an ornate monument to the city's textile heyday, built by a special act of parliament in 1887 to test wool for diseases such as anthrax. Trouble at mill: recession brings renewed threat of bulldozers 2011-03-21T11:55:05Z

After specializing in Holocaust studies for her master’s degree, she taught history and geography in a public high school and worked for more than a decade in monument conservation and restoration. The Louvre’s Art Sleuth Is on the Hunt for Looted Paintings 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

And so the book becomes a commentary on what it takes to produce a monument. Reading group: What does William Golding's Spire stand for? 2013-04-09T12:35:20Z

Two monuments to men who tried and failed, but went down nobly. In Saint John in Canada, Exploring the Legacy of the Loyalists 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

As of the early 20th century, the only significant monument on the Mall was the tall, pale obelisk to George Washington. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Knight built his monument without permission, on California state land east of the Salton Sea, where it’s vulnerable to the elements as well as an ever-increasing number of tourists, art pilgrims and curiosity seekers. Will Salvation Mountain find its savior? The quest to save the desert folk-art landmark 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Government officials had said the museum could not overwhelm the monument or be taller than the neighboring museums and Depression-era office buildings in Federal Triangle. The story behind the design of the African American history museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

One Bosnian monument dramatizes a siege using concrete blocks grouped around a hollow cylinder. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

At my feet, the maze of old Famagusta with its trove of ruined Byzantine churches – roofs missing, iconographic frescoes faded – was further monument to its many riches. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Swarms of insects breeding in a polluted river near the Taj Mahal are threatening the intricate marble inlay work at the 17th century monument to love. Insect poop threatens to damage marble at India’s Taj Mahal 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Residential blocks, hotels, civic centers and monuments all made of concrete shot up across the country. Yugoslavia's brutalist relics fascinate the Instagram generation 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Donations also suddenly poured into the American charity Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, established in 2017 to gather funds for the monument’s restoration. Why have Americans given so much money to restore Notre-Dame? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“Certain colleagues in historic monuments will never work with contemporary art again,” he said. Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

A legal challenge to get the monument back into a public hearing “seems a bit extreme,” said Michele H. Bogart, an art historian specializing in the city’s public works. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

THE Andy Warhol monument — an 11-foot silvery statue of the pope of pop by Rob Pruitt for the Public Art Fund, recently installed on the northwest corner of Union Square — appears to be a success. Possessed: On His Sleeve 2011-04-15T15:57:32Z

The Expo was his idea, and so was Astana, and so are its monuments, most notably the 97-meter-tall Bayterek Tower, which, when I was there, was mobbed by Kazakh tourists in town for the Expo. In Kazakhstan, a World Expo Is All About Energy (and Dancing) 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Walk the trails to see the “monument trees.” At Home in Vancouver 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

What felt special about Green-Wood wasn’t the monuments but the atmosphere. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z

Five centuries later, Stonehenge as we know it was built using some of those existing bluestones, as well as more than 80 towering “sarsen” stones, the monument’s vertical pillars, and horizontal lintels, or capping stones. What Was Stonehenge For? The Answer Might Be Simpler Than You Thought. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The cost for a hulking monument — like Richmond’s Robert E. Lee sculpture, which weighs 13 tons — to be disassembled, stored, shipped and reassembled would be astronomical. Why a Russian billionaire wants to buy controversial statues that were taken down 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

We walk and we listen, and as we do so the buildings and monuments surrounding us take on new dimensions, are burdened with new histories and borrowed memories. Walking tours are the real fringe theatre 2010-12-20T11:38:27Z

David and the Mona Lisa are monuments to a competitive standoff as direct and public and frenzied as today's Turner prize. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z

Only after they had walked through the miles of monuments and acres of white stone crosses did Dad finally give in. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z

In general, monuments aside, political art isn’t made to last; it’s made to work. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

During its apex, 2,000 years ago, previously nomadic ethnicities settled in the city, and all of these contributed to the construction of monuments. The city that makes Rome blush: 5 reasons why Palmyra's ruins are so important 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

France classified it as a historical monument in the 1980s. | A Le Corbusier Rooftop Gets a New Life as an Arts Space 2013-06-07T22:18:36Z

You also once said, “We don’t build monuments.” Q&A: Pablo Larraín, director of ‘Jackie’ and ‘Neruda,’ talks about the anti-biopic 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

“We ended up making this movie for her, as her monument,” Vinterburg said. ‘Another Round’ wins best international film at the Oscars 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

But the memorial in Codogno and others planned elsewhere in Europe are not intended as sweeping monuments to the historical moment, but simple places to grieve and reflect. Giving Hope, and a Place to Mourn: Memorials to the Pandemic 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

In exchange, Mr. Rosso's brands will get billboard placement on one of the city's most famous monuments. ArtsBeat: Venice's Rialto Bridge to Be Restored With Corporate Money 2012-12-14T19:43:29Z

The ceremony drew a three-year saga to a close, in which French cultural figures quarreled about the monument’s location and significance, and questioned Mr. Koons’s motives in creating it. Jeff Koons Inaugurates His Tulip Sculpture in Paris. Finally. 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

In 1909, he contributed funds to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for a monument in Wilmington, N.C., honoring George Davis, the attorney general of the Confederate States. In Baltimore, the Walters Art Museum confronts the Confederate history of its founders 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

The campus of Columbia University is dotted with monuments to illustrious alumni and high-minded ideals. At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Among the most popular images being uploaded are selfies taken in front of famous objects, places and monuments. Keep the camera: Why you shouldn’t worry about taking photos in museums 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Anyone can put up a monument honoring an explorer or a patriot or a warrior. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z

It is a protected monument and the government of India says it is nationally important. India's Hampi heritage site families face eviction from historic ruins 2012-05-26T23:06:07Z

We created these asylums, and they were monuments to enlightenment. "We're putting people in prison whose only crime is mental illness" 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z