The Art Newspaper: Monuments to overlooked histories are coming to Washington, DC’s National Mall

The Art Newspaper / by Claire Voon / Published July 21, 2023

“Visitors who descend on the National Mall in Washington, DC, later this summer will encounter several new artworks that engage with histories of the United States unacknowledged in the marbled monuments around them. Made by artists including Wendy Red Star, vanessa german and Derrick Adams, the six contemporary installations are part of Pulling Together, an exhibition curated by the Philadelphia-based nonprofit Monument Lab intended to raise questions about public memory, historical records and the role of civic spaces.”

“​​Our hope is this prompt and the exhibition pushes a greater understanding of what monuments can be—beyond granite and not always bronze, and also reveal what is missing and what is already made visible on a space as dynamic and diverse as the National Mall,” co-curators Paul Farber and Salamishah Tillet say.”