Monuments
New Orleans mayor moves to make sure the South will not rise again
Artists could subvert statues of Confederate heroes, assuming Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and others stay put on their plinths
Drowned, beheaded and restored: Napoleon statue returns to museum after 282 days in exile
Conservation treatment may resolve conflicting accounts of monument's history
Turkish president appeals ruling that he must pay damages to artist
Mehmet Aksoy's Monument to Humanity was razed by local council after Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it a "monstrosity"
Lenin’s head to come in from the Berlin cold
The statue stood in Lenin Square until 1990, when it was cut into 129 pieces and buried in the woods
Tate finds 370-year-old bullet hole in Charles I statue
The sculpture was famously attacked by Parliamentarians shortly after the outbreak of the English Civil War
Eisenhower's heirs attack Gehry’s plans for memorial to the late US president
The family is objecting to the "extravagant" scheme
Memorials to Norway massacre victims prove divisive
Artist Nico Widerberg’s sculptures welcomed by many, but the way an anonymous donor is funding them upsets others
Why the US military's proposal to dispose of Saddam Hussein’s Victory Monument is misguided
They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated
Two new Holocaust memorials for Berlin
Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis
Selection of Chinese sculptor to create Martin Luther King memorial angers black artists
More than 4,000 people have signed a petition to appoint an African American architect and artist for the monument
Memorials multiply in the US
We take stock of the mania for commemoration that has overtaken New York and Washington, DC
Somebody loves Lenin in Finland
Public outcry scuppered Helsinki officials' plan to buy granite bust of the Communist leader
A wound still festering at the heart of Germany
Parliament has finally voted to build Berlin's memorial to the Holocaust
Richard Meier to obliterate Mussolini’s mark
The US architect's new building for ancient Roman monument to replace one commissioned by the Fascist dictator in the 1930s
Italy will return Axum obelisk to Ethiopia
The act is part of a considerable effort to erase Mussolini’s mark on the nation
What to do with your Socialist-Realist art
Budapest is creating a sculpture park for more than 45 works depicting Lenin, Marx and others
“We buy figureheads, busts, portraits, banners—at high prices”
Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed
How Saddam Hussein's ideology was enshrined in his art commissions
New book "The Monument" explains why greater attention to the Iraqi director’s iconography might have illuminated Western politicians as to his ambitions
Penalties for defacing monuments to Communism are being debated in the Soviet parliament
Are these acts a citizens’ protest against the situation in which the country now finds itself, or are they merely vandalism?