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Architecture: Monumental choices
MICHAL BONCZA reviews an exhibition exploring the function of memorials and how we respond to them
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
David Adjaye: Making Memory
Design Museum
London W8
THE IDEOLOGICAL intent in “making memory” via memorials and monuments which relate particular architectural narratives demands nuanced consideration, quite aside from the mere aesthetics involved in housing such endeavours.
Where, for example, is the moral equivalence between the patriotic war memorials of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington?
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