When tragedy strikes an individual, a nation, or an entire people, artists and architects are tasked with designing a public display that memorializes the event and its victims. But how do you do that? In this episode, we explore the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in DC, the 9/11 Memorial, and others, to look at how respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history and politics. Why do abstract, rather than representational, memorials resonate more profoundly in recent years? And no matter how well done they are, will they inevitably lose their impact after a single generation?

This episode of The Lonely Palette was produced in collaboration with Slate’s Hi-Phi Nation.

Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drone Pine,” “Taoudella,” “The Consulate,” “Our Fingers Cold,” “Slider”
Silver Maple, “After the Rain”
Megan Wofford, “Awake”
Yi Nantiro, “Blue Lantern”
Christian Nanzell, “Contraband”
Gunnar Johnsen, “Documents 4”
Fabien Tell, “Liaison”
Arden Forest, “Monastral”
Niclas Gustavsson, “My Kind of Illusion 1”
Niclas Gustavsson, “Reflection 4”

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