by Susan | Feb 6, 2023 | Monuments
In 1952 Vienna-born artist Egon Weiner created two identical bronze groups for either side of the entrance to a building that, at the time, housed the headquarters of the Union of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen. When the Union moved to Washington, D.C. in...
by Susan | Jan 30, 2023 | Monuments
In 1874, a year after the abolition of slavery by Spanish royal decree, a group of Puerto Rican citizens built a small park in memory of the historic event. In 1880 the city government took up the project and developed this park. It originally included a roller...
by Susan | Jan 23, 2023 | Monuments
A sculpture billed as “a crowd-supported and funded public monument to freedom, cultural diversity and inclusiveness” was unveiled in July, 2017 at a festival celebrating Los Angeles’ diversity. The Freedom Sculpture in Century City was...
by Susan | Jan 16, 2023 | Monuments
The Peace Wall was dedicated on August 29 2019 by then-President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The day is significant: it is not only the annual International Day against Nuclear Tests but also the 27th anniversary of the closing of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. The...
by Susan | Jan 9, 2023 | Monuments
Artist Team David Dahlquist and Matt Niebuhr created Both/And – Tolerance/Innovation to represent what they describe as “a space between knowing and believing.” They describe it as a “signifier of that space between knowing and believing where civility,...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2023 | Monuments
The Monument of Peace is the work of sculptor Michel Stiévenart. It was erected in 1969 on the Place Communale on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of La Louvière, the first Belgian city of peace.
by Susan | Dec 26, 2022 | Monuments
The text on the plaque reads: Ville de Saint Herblain Monument de la Paix inauguré le 11 Novembe 2000 imaginons un monde ou les couples, en se déchirant , ne déchireraient pas les coeurs de leurs enfants une terre ou toutes les cultures, ou toutes les couleurs se...
by Susan | Dec 19, 2022 | Monuments
Nagasaki native son Seibo Kitamura created the 32-foot bronze, whose right arm points upward toward the threat of nuclear destruction while the left arm is extended in a gesture of peace. His eyes are closed in prayer for the dead, but his muscular figure symbolizes...
by Susan | Dec 12, 2022 | Monuments
Founded in 1841, St. Augustine is the oldest African-American Roman Catholic parish in the United States. The church was founded by free people of color, who purchased additional pews for the enslaved. This memorial, which does not contain any actual remains, was...
by Susan | Dec 5, 2022 | Monuments
On September 26, 2019 in Paris, Humanity & Inclusion unveiled what it claims is the world’s first Monument to the Unnamed Civilian. Their goal is to “denounce the devastating pattern of modern conflict, which harms innocent civilians over and over again. In...
