“Beyond Granite,” a curated outdoor exhibition, reminds us what the National Mall could be.
, a Philadelphia-based group devoted to rethinking how we make memorials and monuments. The goal of the project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is to “create a more inclusive, equitable, and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall.” It is billed as the first curated art exhibition to include multiple artists presented on the nation’s monumental greensward.
Again, the siting of Red Star’s work is strategic, next to the memorial to the signers of the nation’s founding document, on a patch of the Mall near which was once a canal and later a sewer. Constitution Gardens was intended as a pastoral respite from the formality of the more rectilinear Mall, on land that was until 1971 occupied by temporary buildings that served the military during World Wars I and II. This is land full of layers, that has hosted a multiplicity of uses.
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