Just a few steps away from the Les Glénans base, a dark stone monument has been erected "In Memory Of All The Boys Who Were In Baltimore Industrial School In The Years 1930-1950".
SLICK A dark, lacquered monument to the corrupt dreams of land sharks everywhere: all the shiny outfits you'll need to go with your black leather furniture, one-way mirrors and assumed identity.
In "Isolation Peak" (circa 1930), a coldly sunlit, pyramidal mountain rises from rolling green foothills against an ominous, dark gray sky, a monument of pantheistic conviction.
They roared loudest in the second-set tie breaker, when in a seemingly endless rally Istomin lunged toward the net and poked a shot past Nadal, leaving a long, dark skid mark as a monument to the shot.
Military marches blast from Nadine Robinson's room-size boombox, passionate Colombian folk songs soar through a lovely video piece by Adriana Arenas, and a throbbing, addictive technopulse (music by Wolfgang Voigt) emanates from Julian Laverdiere's dark, beetling installation, a romantic monument to failed ambition that is also, appropriately, one of the largest pieces on view.
In January, the Satanic Temple announced plans to erect a monument glorifying the Dark Lord on the front lawn of the Oklahoma Statehouse.
Looking severe in his stereotypical Mao uniform and dark glasses, he stands before monuments, historic sites or roadside attractions -- the United States Capitol, a white Congregational church, an elephant in an amusement park -- which he encountered in his world travels.
In the museum, a former mansion once owned by Kahlo's good friend, the poet Miguel N. Lira, I took in the artist's work in what may be its proper context: a temple to rural Mexico situated amid monuments of the dark parts of its history.
The head of a Lenin monument appears in a dark stairwell, surrounded by houseplants; a headless Lenin monument duly stands guard outside what is now a Chinese factory.
There is a fabulous view from the top of the monument, with its 164 dark, cramped steps.
