New Monuments

Mabel O. Wilson.
Sara Zewde.
As monuments commemorating the Confederacy and other troubling aspects of American history continue to topple across the country, a new generation of artists and architects is charting ways to keep the memory of slavery alive without glorifying it. Two leading voices among them are Mabel O. Wilson—an architect and professor at Columbia University—and Sara Zewde, a landscape architect and assistant professor at Harvard. Wilson, who cocurated “Reconst