Paul M. Farber is a curator, historian, and educator from Philadelphia. He is Director of Monument Lab. He also serves as Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art & Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Beyond Granite: Pulling Together
Trust for the National Mall, National Capital Planning Commission, and National Park Service, 2023
The Statue
WHYY Digital Studios and the NPR Podcast Network, 2023
Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia
Temple University Press, 2020
A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall
University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Updates:
CBS Sunday Morning: “Art on the Mall: American diversity on display”
Washington Post: “Art on the Mall! They put art on the Mall!”
NPR Weekend Morning Edition: “A groundbreaking exhibition on the National Mall shows monuments aren't set in stone”
New York Times: “On Our National Mall, New Monuments Tell New Stories”
New York Magazine’s The Cut: “Reimagining What Monuments Can Be”
New York Times T Magazine: “A Virtual Tour of Philadelphia’s Monuments”
NPR All Things Considered: “Memorializing The Deaths Of More Than 500,000 Americans Lost To COVID-19”
New Yorker: “The New Monuments That America Needs”
VICE: “How to Put Up Monuments That Truly Reckon With American History”
Art Forum: “Monument Lab – Paul Farber and Ken Lum on reimagining symbols and systems of justice”
Philadelphia Inquirer: “We finally removed a racist statue in Philly. What comes next for our public art?”
Al Jazeera: “Toppling racist statues makes space for radical change”
Monument Lab: Masked Monuments: Parting Gifts to Public Space”
Philadelphia Inquirer: "Commentary: A new generation of leadership for Philly"