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Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch

06/12/2026

President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River. The plan, which would see work happen year-round …

Метки : политикаархитектурапамятникивашингтонавиацияпротивостояние

House Democrats Introduce Bill to Block Trump’s Arlington Arch

05/30/2026

A group of House Democrats will ntroduce legislation aimed at stopping President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, opening a new front in the growing battle over the administration’s efforts to reshape some of the nation’s most …

Метки : политикапамятникизаконодательствоarlington national cemeteryохрана наследияскандал

Trump Reinstalls Statue to Founding Father, Enslaver Removed in 2020

05/28/2026

Last Friday, the Trump administration erected 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington D.C.—including an equestrian monument dedicated to the Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Caesar Rodney that was removed from view in Wilmington, Delaware amidst the Black …

Метки : памятникиистория.политикапротестырабствоsmithsonian

Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Controversial Triumphal Arch

05/23/2026

President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy …

Метки : дональд трампархитектурапамятникиарлингтонсохранение наследияполитика

Trump Officials Cite Century-Old Report As Approval for DC Arch

05/22/2026

Trump does not need Congressional approval to build a proposed 250-foot arch on Washington, DC’s Memorial Circle, on Columbia Island, officials are arguing, because a century-old report once called for a pair of 166-foot columns there, reports the Washington Post. …

Метки : политикаархитектуравашингтонсудебные спорыпамятники

Hamburg Culture Prize Renamed After Namesake’s Nazi Ties Emerge

05/20/2026

A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the man who was the prize’s namesake when it was founded. The Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal will now …

Метки : искусство#культурагамбургнацизмпремияпамятники

Trump Administration Faces Lawsuit Over Blue Reflecting Pool Renovation

05/13/2026

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C-based nonprofit focused on education and advocacy, has sued the Trump administration over its controversial makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, arguing that federal officials failed to follow legally required review procedures before …

Метки : памятникисудсохранение наследияархитектураполитикалинкольн

Trump Installs Christopher Columbus Statue at White House

03/23/2026

A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020. The sculpture was …

Метки : политикапамятникиисторическая памятьпротестыискусствосша

Statue Removed During Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.

03/23/2026

Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration …

Метки : история.памятникирабствополитикапротесты250-летие

Artists Circulate Letter Urging Jewish Museum to Save New Deal Murals

01/27/2026

The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and …

Метки : искусствоновый курсеврейский музейбен шахнфилипп гастонпамятники

Rocky Statue Will Move to Top of Philadelphia Art Museum Steps

01/15/2026

A popular statue of Rocky that’s currently sited at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Art Museum is officially being relocated to the top of those flights. There is technically a sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional …

Метки : роккифиладельфияискусствоскульптурамузейпамятники

The Cerne Abbas Giant's Genitalia was Almost Covered By Trees

07/02/2025

The Cerne Abbas Giant, one of England’s best-known historic hill figures, almost had its genitalia covered over due to a complaint in the 1930s. The Cerne Abbas Giant is an 180-foot long male nude with a club made by Anglo-Saxons …

Метки : гигантсерна аббасистория.памятникианглияплодородие

Ruins of Imet Reveal Daily Life in a Long-Buried Capital in Egypt

06/24/2025

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Imet, a once-prominent city in Egypt’s Nile Delta, buried for centuries beneath a mound in the Sharqia governorate. The discovery, led by a British team from the University of Manchester, was announced this week …

Метки : археологияегипетистория.древностигородапамятники

Russian University Chancellor Dies Inside Soviet-Era Statue

05/23/2025

Nikolai Chesnokov, chancellor of Moscow’s State Academy of Physical Education, died on Thursday at the site of a World War II–era monument in the Russian city of Volgograd, according to reports in the local media. He was 68. Chesnokov had …

Метки : спортроссияпамятникиистория.сталинградсобытия