NewsColombia
Monuments of European colonisers are vandalised and toppled in Colombia
The country's ministry of culture says it will form a committee to review contested memorials
NewsMemorials
As 'mountains of corpses' wash up on Tunisian shores, artist Rachid Koraichi builds burial site for migrants
Memorial and graveyard designed by Algerian artist will be used to bury the unidentified bodies of those who have tried and failed to cross the sea
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
World’s oldest war memorial may have been identified in Syria
The White Monument at Tell Banat contains the bones of what are believed to be around 30 dead soldiers, posed as if they fell in battle
NewsMemorials
France's planned slavery memorial on hold over debate about naming 200,000 freed slaves
Shortlisted proposals by artists including Adrian Piper, Julien Creuzet and duo Sammy Baloji and Emeka Ogboh did not adequately adhere to the requirements, campaign group says
NewsHolocaust
Babyn Yar: site where 100,000 victims were shot by Nazis to get one of world’s largest Holocaust memorial centres
“We do not want to create a big building that sits heavily” on this sensitive ground, says Robert Jan Van Pelt, one of the minds behind the project in Ukraine
NewsPublic art
UK government announces new laws to protect controversial historic monuments from 'woke worthies and baying mobs'
Proposed plans have been criticised as distraction tactics from the state's "lethally failed response to the pandemic and the consequences of a disastrous Brexit"
NewsPublic sculpture
Twitter explodes with debate around long-awaited statue of feminist trailblazer Mary Wollstonecraft
Sculpture by Maggi Hambling is the result of a decade-long campaign to honour the 18th-century women's rights advocate
NewsMemorials
In honour of Armistice Day, more than 100 English war memorials listed as sites of historical importance
Monuments commemorating the First and Second World Wars—mostly built in small towns and villages—are added to Historic England's list of protected places
NewsMemorials
Petition launched to replace Confederate monument in South Carolina with statue of actor Chadwick Boseman
Many say he "opened doors" for black people in the arts and artists like Toyin Ojih Odutola have created works honouring the the 43-year-old Black Panther actor, who died last week
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Germany's Holocaust memorial sites fight against surge in far-right threats
Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours
NewsControversies
'Intrusive addition': Antony Gormley’s memorial to mathematician Alan Turing draws fire
Some critics support the proposed sculpture for Cambridge University while others question the competition process
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Memorialising an American tragedy
Survivors, artists and lawmakers debate if public memorials to mass shootings in the US hurt more than they help
InterviewExhibitions
‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Battered London tomb of the great French tightrope walker Blondin restored
The 19th-century daredevil is most famous for crossing Niagara Falls 17 times—once with a stove on which he cooked an omelette
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Doris Salcedo's army of women reshape the meaning of guerrilla weapons
Some of the 15,000 women who were raped or sexually assaulted during the 53-year war in Colombia are telling their stories through a new memorial
NewsPublic art
Public sculpture will commemorate Chattanooga lynching victim 100 years on
Memorial part of push for new works that challenge history of white supremacy in the US
InterviewFrieze 2017
Kiluanji Kia Henda: The right way to fill a city’s plinths
The Frieze Artist Award winner brings an Angolan take on the public sculpture debate
NewsCommissions
German parliament approves plan for unification memorial in Berlin
“Unity seesaw” is to be unveiled in 2019 in front of the city palace
News
Jeff Koons unveils plans for a memorial to the victims of the Paris terror attacks
But funding still needs to be found for Bouquet of Tulips, which is modelled on the Statue of Liberty
News
US presidents and Taiwan back Eisenhower Memorial
Frank Gehry revises controversial design but the family of the soldier and statesman remains unimpressed
News
Four years on and Norway is still divided on massacre memorial
Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's monument, which calls for a slice of the Sørbråten peninsula to be cut out like “an open wound”, was due for completion in July
ArchiveDecember 2012
Eisenhower's heirs attack Gehry’s plans for memorial to the late US president
The family is objecting to the "extravagant" scheme
ArchiveMarch 2012
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
ArchiveBosnia
Former US president Bill Clinton opens memorial to massacred Muslims in Bosnia
The monument is dedicated to the thousands killed in Srebrenica when the city fell to Bosnian Serbs in July 1995
ArchiveFebruary 2003
Memorials multiply in the US
We take stock of the mania for commemoration that has overtaken New York and Washington, DC
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Moscow property development threatens site of Malevich grave
Local authorities have not been sympathetic towards Malevich's estate where he was buried
CommentDiary of an art historian
People see only 'silver tits' and 'bouffant pubes' now—but I predict Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture will become widely admired
One of the iron rules of art history is that the more derided a work of art at first, the more celebrated it will become
Bendor Grosvenor