ArchiveSeptember 1999
A wound still festering at the heart of Germany
Parliament has finally voted to build Berlin's memorial to the Holocaust
ArchiveMarch 2008
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
ArchiveDecember 1990
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?
ArchiveMay 1993
What to do with your Socialist-Realist art
Budapest is creating a sculpture park for more than 45 works depicting Lenin, Marx and others
ArchiveMay 2015
Drowned, beheaded and restored: Napoleon statue returns to museum after 282 days in exile
Conservation treatment may resolve conflicting accounts of monument's history
ArchiveOctober 2014
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
NewsStatues
City of London to remove statues of politicians with slavery links
The decision to take down historic William Beckford and John Cass sculptures could go against new UK government policy
ArchiveMarch 2015
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"
ArchiveNovember 2013
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
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
ArchiveMarch 2008
Two new Holocaust memorials for Berlin
Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis
ArchiveMay 2007
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
ArchiveJune 2004
18th-century statue of St James removed from the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Officials feared the sculpture, which depicts the national saint slaying a Moor, would offend Muslims
ArchiveMay 2004
The US finally unveils its Second World War memorial
It has taken almost 60 years to commemorate the 400,000 American soldiers who died in the conflict
ArchiveFebruary 2003
Memorials multiply in the US
We take stock of the mania for commemoration that has overtaken New York and Washington, DC
ArchiveJuly 2000
Somebody loves Lenin in Finland
Public outcry scuppered Helsinki officials' plan to buy granite bust of the Communist leader
ArchiveMay 1999
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
ArchiveDecember 1998
Action urgently needed to save Brancusi’s Endless Column
The most important outdoor sculpture of this century has been ravaged by rust, pollution, politics and conservation debates
ArchiveNovember 1997
Italy will return Axum obelisk to Ethiopia
The act is part of a considerable effort to erase Mussolini’s mark on the nation
ArchiveFebruary 1992
“We buy figureheads, busts, portraits, banners—at high prices”
Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed
ArchiveMarch 1991
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
CommentDiary of an art historian
'When the politics change, so must the statues'
History can teach us a lot about how to—and how not to—deal with problematic historic monuments
Bendor Grosvenor