What Do Monuments Mean to Us? - Dwell

The recent takedowns of controversial statues call into question the meaning and permanence of monuments themselves.

What Do Monuments Mean to Us? - Dwell 🏠 Discover new design ideas every day. Sign up for Dwell’s newsletter 🏠 Subscribe Sign In One day early last month, Ace Callwood, a young tech entrepreneur and diversity educator, was walking down Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, when he came across an older man wearing a veteran’s hat and scrubbing red paint off the base of a Robert E. Lee monument, the centerpiece of the landmarked district. Only a few days before, Callwood had participated in one of the marches that crossed the avenue, from landmark to landmark, advocating for police reform and

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