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NEW YORK - MWTH project and NYC Parks are pleased to present Medusa With The Head of Perseus by Argentine-Italian artist Luciano Garbati in Collect Pond Park, located on Centre St, Lower Manhattan, as part of NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program. The seven-foot bronze sculpture inverts the narrative of Medusa, portraying her in a moment of somberly empowered self-defense. https://www.mwthproject.com/oct-2020?fbclid=IwAR0Z0EwJ5s9r3BBlNQi4bKVqV7e-myKCPqI9H-TUsbYI7gG-5jIS8GWHcMs

Monument
is a collaboration with e-flux Architecture to investigate how monuments have – once again – come to play a pivotal role in mobilising and rearticulating struggles for recognition.
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/monument/
https://research-development.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/research-projects/monument

Historical monuments and who they seek to memorialize have come under harsh scrutiny in 2020. Emerson Contemporary, along with a team of professors and activist artists, came together on Oct. 14 at a virtual panel titled “Memorials: As Monuments Fall,” where they discussed the removal of outdated or offensive monuments as more are taken down across the country.
https://berkeleybeacon.com/artists-activists-come-together-for-memorials-as-monuments-fall-webinar/

Brian Boucher:
People are calling for museums to be abolished. Can whitewashed American history be rewritten? https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/natural-history-museum-whitewashing-monuments-statues-trnd/index.html

Artist Marc Quinn leads secret mission to install resin-and-steel figure of Jen Reid at site of toppled Bristol slave trader
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/edward-colston-statue-replaced-by-sculpture-of-black-lives-matter-protester?

The US could learn from how Eastern Europe treats its Soviet oppressors’ statues
BY MARKOS KOUNALAKIS
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article243812472.html?

László Szabolcs: Memory Politics in an Illiberal Regime
Hungary’s new Trianon memorial
https://publicseminar.org/essays/memory-politics-in-an-illiberal-regime/?