Smithsonian Magazine: Beyond Granite is One of the Most Anticipated Museum Openings of 2023
“Beyond Granite” is one of the most anticipated museum openings of 2023
Smithsonian Magazine’s Laura Kiniry named Beyond Granite—the Trust for the National Mall’s initiative which invites visionary artists to create special commemorative exhibits, performances, and installations on the National Mall and throughout the District of Columbia—as one of the most anticipated museum openings of 2023 alongside other respected and compelling institutions.
“‘Beyond Granite’ is a pilot program implemented by the Trust for the National Mall, in partnership with National Capital Planning Commission and the National Park Service, to broaden the dialogue on and around Washington, D.C.’s National Mall and bring together private art with a public monument.
Throughout the second half of 2023, the Mall and its surroundings will become home to a series of new commemorative exhibitions, performances and installations—all designed to generate more equity and inclusivity through creative expression, and explore the role of monuments in telling and shaping American history.”
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Beyond Granite, funded by the Mellon Foundation, invites visionary artists to create special commemorative exhibits, performances, and installations on the National Mall and throughout the District of Columbia that will expand the public's imagination and understanding and create a more a more inclusive, equitable, and representative process for commemoration on the National Mall – and beyond.
”Pulling Together,” the inaugural exhibition of Beyond Granite, will feature installations and exhibits or prototype monuments, on the National Mall and in Washington, DC from leading contemporary artists that respond to a central curatorial question: What stories remain untold on the National Mall?
The Trust for the National Mall is honored to be working with the Mellon Foundation and its partners The National Capitol Planning Commission and the National Park Service to bring this new series to life to tell the fuller American story in the commemorative landscape.