#public-monuments tag

California set to rename Cesar Chavez Day after bombshell rape scandal

California Democrats plan to rename Cesar Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day due to serious allegations against Chavez.

Former SF supervisor behind Cesar Chavez St. name in 1995 wants to change it after abuse allegations

San Francisco may rename Cesar Chavez Street back to Army Street following sexual assault allegations against the labor leader, reversing a 1995 decision that was itself controversial.

fromJezebel

2 weeks ago

Danish Women Are Fashion-Bombing Statues to Protest Most Statues Being Dead Guys

A report released in February by Denmark's Museum of Art in Public Spaces found that 484 monuments in the country depict historically significant men, compared with just 43 depicting women. Meanwhile, over 120 public sculptures are of naked women from literature and mythology.

Women in technology

UK politics

fromwww.bbc.com

3 weeks ago

Winston Churchill statue defaced with graffiti

Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square was defaced with pro-Palestine graffiti including accusations of war crimes and calls for genocide cessation.

Arts

fromHyperallergic

4 weeks ago

Required Reading

Lunar New Year festivities and California's new Historic South L.A. Cultural District underscore renewed recognition of local arts, community celebration, and plans for a monument.

Social justice

fromThe Atlantic

1 month ago

Black History Month Is Radical Now

America elevates Founding figures to faultless heroes despite their roles as enslavers; efforts to erase those truths distort national memory.

Books

fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events

1 month ago

'The good, the bad and the ugly': a short history of how artists depict the female body

Public visual culture simultaneously overexposes and marginalizes the female body: abundant naked female imagery on buildings contrasts with few monuments honoring named women.

from48 hills

6 months ago

Painter Luis Felipe Chavez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within - 48 hills

The sculpture that we have here in Dolores Park is pretty chill, like, 'Oh, I did it. Everything is over,'

Arts

fromCreative Bloq

10 months ago

The Pope's tomb is the most unexpected design crime of 2025

"Seriously, I find this kinda stuff so strange, especially on such a high-profile job. This'll be one of the most important engravings of the decade and they let someone f**k it up."

Typography

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