Tag: Monuments

Two Monuments, Two Cities

In Paris and Washington D.C., the Autumn of 2021 presented two memorials that reflected the process of memory, struggle and loss — most recently due to the Covid-19 pandemic. On September 18th after 60 years of planning, Christo and Jeanne-Claude posthumously unveiled “L’Arc de Tri...

What White People Need to Hear About the Confederate Monuments

Newspapers are a long-forgotten medium in our modern world. But I happened to spot a copy of the New York Times in a moment of boredom and realized it’s still a unique source of connection to the world around us. A giant statue of General Robert E. Lee graced the cover of the comm...

Canada Should Remove Its Nazi Monuments For Good

It’s a painful experience, but it’s one that I highly encourage everyone to seek out. Such memorials exist all around the world, and they’re an incredible reminder of how horrible human beings can truly be to one another. It’s hard to look at the images and read the horrib...

‘Seeing greatly,’ Augmented reality in Museums & the 3 use cases — Monuments, Epiphanies, Utilities

Nobel Laureate nominee André Malraux once stated a museum without walls is coming into being and this ideal is a new field of art experience, a Musée Imaginaire, a Museum without Walls. Here is an expectation for modern museums to be more than a place to store treasures but constitute ...