The city’s Pilsen neighborhood used to be home to Polish immigrants. Now it’s mostly Latino. Both groups see much at stake in the fate of a replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà.
Tag: Monuments and Memorials (Structures)
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Decades After the Central Park Jogger Attack, a City Marks Its Mistake
An entrance to Central Park will be named the Gate of the Exonerated, for the teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of a crime that triggered a national conversation on racial injustice.
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Can America Really Envision World War III?
As the last generation that remembers full-scale global war is disappearing, the United States may be stumbling into a catastrophe.
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In Yahidne, Ukraine, a Battered School Holds Memories of Trauma
In Yahidne, a village in northern Ukraine, a basement became a virtual prison for hundreds of residents for four weeks. Months later, that horror lingers.
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Imagining a Monument to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths
In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to lose.