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Starting in 2005, Salt Lake City started installing "flying objects" in prominent places downtown. Artists were commissioned to create art that could stand the harsh winters for at least two years. "Peace of Pie Please," by Stephen Dayton, is one of six installed atop...

In the Summer of 2015, Ports of Auckland proposed building a monument to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on the city's waterfront. The Greenpeace vessel was sunk in a terrorist attack while it was moored at Marsden Wharf in July 1985. The wharf is being demolished...

On a headland at the northern end of this beach sits the Rainbow Warrior memorial, an early work of Chris Booth, a New Zealand sculptor. The memorial site, a brisk 15 minute walk from the beach, has majestic views towards the Cavalli Islands where the Rainbow Warrior...

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 from Auckland to protest...

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...

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; the...

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...

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,...

The Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula; it was established as part of the armistice agreement in 1953 to serve as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. Since 1974, the South Koreans have discovered four infiltration...

Thirty years ago a group of Black activists planted a tree to mark the place, on a median on MLK Blvd, where they wanted to install a statue of Martin Luther King.  In 2012 the tree had to be removed when Metro, Houston's transit authority, began construction on its...

This Rosa Parks statue was installed in 2009 in a new Rosa Parks Plaza, a transportation hub for buses and light rail in the Dallas West End, near Dealy Plaza. There is room on the bench for commuters to sit with Rosa for a while, and they do. Behind her is a...

This monument, located on the statehouse grounds, commemorates protests which helped bring about school desegregation in Virginia. Opened in July 2008, it features eighteen statues of leaders or participants in the Civil Rights Movement on four sides of a rectangular...

On Monday, February 1, 1960, Greensboro went down in history for the igniting the civil rights “sit-in” movement in the nation. On this day, four North Carolina. A&T State University students sat down at the F.W. Woolworth Company’s segregated lunch counter and asked...