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Chicago Just Unveiled a Monument for Journalist Ida B. Wells—the City's First Honoring a Black Woman

Activist Ida B. Wells now has a monument in her honor.

Chicago Just Unveiled a Monument for Journalist Ida B. Wells—the City's First Honoring a Black Woman

The Louvre Just Launched a New Online Database With Its Entire Collection—More Than 480,000 Artworks

The Louvre by night.

The Louvre Just Launched a New Online Database With Its Entire Collection—More Than 480,000 Artworks

Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel—And First Nude Movie Star

Audrey Munson photographed in 1915.

Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel—And First Nude Movie Star

Newly Discovered Letter From Frederick Douglass Discusses the Need for Better Monuments

"What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man," Frederick Douglass wrote in response to this memorial in 1876.

Newly Discovered Letter From Frederick Douglass Discusses the Need for Better Monuments

Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the Country—And Historians Aren’t Surprised

Next month, the city council will vote on the removal of this Confederate statue in Pensacola, Florida.

7 of the World's Quirkiest Statues

The Jolly Green Giant looms over Blue Earth, Minnesota.

15 Colorful Facts About Georgia O’Keeffe

By Alfred Stieglitz, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

The Hand and Arm That Once Belonged to Bowling Green’s King George III Statue Is Going Up for Auction

Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, N.Y.C. by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel circa 1859.

Rotting Fruit—Made of Glass—Is the Focus of a New Exhibition at Harvard

Strawberry with Penicillium sp. mold, Rudolf Blaschka, 1929

Apollo 11 Astronauts Are Being Honored With Butter Sculptures at the Ohio State Fair

American Dairy Assocation

Belgium to Unveil a 250-Ton Steel Sculpture—Europe’s Largest Public Artwork—35 Years After France Rejected It

French artist Bernar Venet, creator of Arc Majeur.

This Giant Jeff Koons Play-Doh Sculpture Could Be Yours for $20 Million

Christie's

Inside the Quest to Save 42 Giant Presidential Statues

Gary Knapp // Getty Images

The Michelangelo Sculpture that Melted Away

Meet the Artist Who Makes Smelly Art from Sweat and Bacteria

Artwork: 2666 by Anicka Yi, 2015. Photo: Philipp Hänger. Courtesy of the Guggenheim Museum.

Artist Transforms Old CDs Into Nature-Inspired Sculptures

Courtesy of Sean Avery