by Susan | Jul 3, 2017 | Monuments
The Rainbow Warrior’s masts were first “stepped” (ceremoniously raised) at Dargaville Museum in 1986, commemorating the bombing of Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear protest flagship in Auckland Harbor on July 10, 1985. The ship was preparing to depart...
by Susan | Jun 26, 2017 | Monuments
Rapid City South Dakota (pop. about 70,000) is a city filled with statues. In 2000 it declared itself the “city of presidents” and installed a life-size statue of one on each street corner. Before the presidents started appearing, though, there was...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2017 | Monuments
Chain Reaction depicts a mushroom cloud created by a nuclear explosion. Designed by American editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad and built by Peter M. Carlson, the 26-foot high sculpture was installed in 1991 adjacent to the Santa Monica Civic Center. An inscription at...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2017 | Monuments
In 2014 a giant pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers appeared on Cape Town’s Sea Point Promenade, pointed towards Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 of his 27 years as a prisoner. The artist, Michael Elion, pitched it as a public art installation;...
by Susan | Jun 5, 2017 | Monuments
This park, dedicated in 2010, is a result of the 2001 Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which a group of Whites attacked what was then the wealthiest Black community in the US. An estimated 10,000 Blacks were left homeless, and 35 city...
by Susan | May 29, 2017 | Monuments
In 1347, after the Battle of Crécy, the English King Edward III laid siege to the French port city of Calais. In exchange for lifting the siege, he demanded that six prominent citizens – burghers – surrender themselves at the gate, with nooses around their necks,...
