France Launches Open Call For Memorial Honoring Victims of Slavery

The French cultural ministry recently launched an open call for a memorial to honor victims of slavery. The statue will be installed in the Tuileries Garden near the Musée du Louvre. Proposals for the monument were supported by the Representative council of France's Black Associations, but on one condition: the artist chosen to create the sculpture "must be of African descent," expressed the council's former president Louis-Georges Tin to The Art Newspaper."This project expresses the desire to ...