The New New Monuments*

04/10/08  Will Bradley

Over the past few years, countless monuments have fallen, yet people keep erecting new ones. At the site of the devastated WTC, a memorial and an enormous freedom tower are going up; in Europe, museums are reserving large spaces for huge artworks; in the centre of London, a plinth that had been empty for 150 years has been occupied by experimental contemporary art for the last decade. Will Bradley explores the meaning of this renewed interest in monuments.

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