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Orlando chooses its memorial to Pulse shooting victims
More than three years after the massacre, a winning design has been selected for a $45m museum and memorial campus, but some survivors and victims’ families would rather it stay unbuilt.
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New York opens applications for two new monuments honouring black history
The city forges ahead with its campaign to build new memorials, as public officials face pressure to reform selections process
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Designs for new D-Day monument in Normandy will go on sale at Masterpiece
David Williams-Ellis' sculpture for the British Normandy Memorial will be unveiled today by May and Macron
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Rise up: new monument to honour Stonewall heroines Marsha and Sylvia
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Virginia judge rules that two Confederate statues in Charlottesville are war memorials
City Council members seeking to remove them argued that they were actually monuments to white supremacy
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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
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Erdogan says museum and former cathedral Hagia Sophia will become a mosque again
The Turkish president wants the monument to serve as a place of worship flouting international pressure to retain the site’s current neutral status
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New York to build monuments to four more female trailblazers
Honourees range from Billie Holiday to a pioneer in public health
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University of North Carolina rejects plan for museum to house toppled Confederate statue
UNC Chapel Hill seeks another solution to preserve Silent Sam, described as a “monument to white supremacy”
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Doris Salcedo melts down guns for new memorial in Colombia honouring sexually assaulted women
Some of the 15,000 victims attacked during the 53-year war between the government and leftist Farc rebels are helping to make the "anti-monument"
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First She Built NYC monument to honour Shirley Chisholm
A statue of the “unbought and unbossed” first black US congresswoman is to be unveiled in Prospect Park in 2020
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Kant monument splashed with pink paint in Kaliningrad
Defacement may be politically motivated as nationalists see the veneration of the German figure as unpatriotic
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Canada struggles with monuments tied to colonialism
Echoing a conflict in the US, the nation contends with calls to remove controversial memorials
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New York City to move one controversial monument, while others remain
A commission created to review “symbols of hate” on city property has decided most will stay put with signage added to explain their history, while new works will be created to honour underrepresented communities
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How the Vietnam Veterans Memorial went from an art battleground to a solemn destination
James Reston, the author of a book on the site’s history, talks to us about the power of monuments
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David Adjaye and Ron Arad unanimously selected to design UK Holocaust and Memorial Centre
Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor also competed for the prestigious commission honouring victims of Nazi persecution
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Canada’s first national Holocaust memorial opens in Ottawa
Daniel Libeskind-designed monument in concrete and metal has the shape of a distorted Star of David
CommentSocial history
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Matthew Sears is professor of classics and ancient history, University of New Brunswick
Matthew Sears