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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $5-million grant supporting the Williamsburg Bray School Project, an initiative spearheaded by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and William & Mary.

Reclaiming The Monument, a projection-based protest art project by Richmond-based artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui, has been given a grant of $670,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation a Monuments Project.

LOS ANGELES - When Judy Baca and a team of 80 kids began painting "The History of...

When Pearl Fryar was no longer able to tend to his topiary garden in Bishopville, the local community tried to help, but the task was too great. Now with the help of the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, a national grant could help preserve the garden and help change the nation's commemorative landscape.

<p><a href="https://monumentlab.com/people/paul-m-farber" target="_blank">Paul Farber</a>, director of Monument Lab, said, “We must see monuments as way stations that reflect our values. This is a generational process.”</p>

A major audit of nearly 50,000 monuments reveals the historical figures, themes and myths that dominate the nation's commemorative landscape

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Snap Inc. launch LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives Initiative rolls out with dynamic schedule of programs including panels, podcasts, and a docuseries. LOS ANGELES, CA .-The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in collaboration with Snap Inc., today introduces the first collection of LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives projects. This multi-year initiative brings together local artists and technologists to create virtual monuments that explore...

As much as wed like to think that were doing everything right, right now, were not. Not totally.   In a century or so, the folks whove taken our place here on the shore of Lake Michigan (assuming that were not messing up so badly that theres not still a Lake Michigan) will recognize our failings. Theyll wonder how we could have been so ignorant and careless. Or worse, so craven. They’ll attempt to set things right. And, with the benefit of historys rearview mirror, theyll decide the fate of...

Chicago mayor targets monuments to Civil War, American Revolution As tragedies go, few match the poetic dimensions of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, Good Friday, 1865. Coming just five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered Confederate armies to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and four years and three days after the attack on Fort Sumter opened the conflict, Lincoln’s killing was, symbolically, the last act in the carnage of the Civil War that had...

The Orwellian idea of removing Lincoln from Chicago would be as vain as an attempt to erase the history of Chicago itself. One might just as well allow the Magnificent Mile to wash back into Lake Michigan.