For those of us who live in the shadow of an empty sky, there is a particular duplication of mourning, for what was once and is now gone, but also for what is to come.
Dedicated to the campus police officer killed by the Tsarnaev brothers as they fled, the Sean Collier Memorial is both a poetic sculptural form and an amazing feat of engineering and technology.
The World War II Memorial, recently unveiled on the Mall in Washington, D.C., embodies the term “neo”—Neoclassic, neo-Modern, even neo-Postmodern—and inhabits a nether region in the landscape between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.