Dotting the Parks, Monuments to the Famous or Forgotten - NYTimes.com
What exactly constitutes a monument is not cut in stone, so to speak.
“A monument can be an artwork, but it doesn’t have to be,” explained Jonathan Kuhn, the parks department’s director of art and antiquities. “It has to perpetuate memory and have a commemorative function. It’s everything from a marker in the ground to the triumphal arch in Washington Square Park.”
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