A powerful accumulation of names is inscribed on slabs of reflective stone that cuts into the earth on the Mall. Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent. Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks by Dr. Mya Dosch
Shrady’s sneaky self-portrait within this sculpture took on tragic connotations after the monument claimed his life. Shrady and Casey, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial by Julia Langley
Royal ambivalence? Rude’s Arc de Triomphe sculpture had a revolutionary message, but the endorsement of the king. François Rude, La Marseillaise by Ben Pollitt