Intro: “The Statue Got Me High,” by They Might Be Giants

Discussed:

• “There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.” – Robert Musil
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC, Maya Lin
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Washington DC, Frank Gehry
• National World War II Memorial, Washington DC, 
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Peter Eisenman
• Monument vs monumental vs memorial
• The Bastille, Paris
• Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York City, Michael Arad 
• New Yorker cover, “Memorial Plaza,” 7-14 July 2014, Adrian Tomine
• Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
• “Death, Grief and Mourning in Contemporary Britain,” – Geoffrey Gorer, 1965
• Sedlec Ossuary, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
• “The Hour of Our Death” – Philippe Ariès, 1977
• Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
• Brooklyn Strand, repurposing the Brooklyn War Memorial as a conduit to New York City’s park system
• Hyde Park Corner, London
• Monuments that “switch on” only when they’re blown up or taken down
  • Marian Columns
  • Georgia Guidestones
  • Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond
  • White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.
• “Kickstarter urbanism” and the crowd-funded monument
• Denkmalkritik
• “The Great War and Modern Memory” – Paul Fussell
• The Grove, Los Angeles
• Texas State Capital Grounds, Austin
• Outro: “Monuments for a Dead Century,” by The Boo Radleys