Public spaces and monuments have been put under new light in recent months. Not only have public spaces been empty due to COVID, (such as New York’s Times Square, as shown in the picture) but in recent weeks with the Black Lives Matter movement controversial monuments have been coming down.As such, the founders of The Monument Lab, Chair of the Fine Arts Department Ken Lum and Senior Research Scholar Paul Farber have shared their reactions in the recently published Penn Today article.
The Monument Lab Monument Lab is an independent public art and history studio based in Philadelphia which cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.
The article serves as a Q and A with Ken and Paul while they talk about not only public space, monuments and the Monument Lab, but also their own recently published books. You can read the article here and learn more about the Monument Lab here.
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