A short time ago, the Smithsonian Institution added a fifth Grand Challenge to its framework for study and examination, entitled “magnifying the transformative power of the arts and design”. One aspect of that inquiry involves examining how arts communities past and present have helped us to remember and make sense of world events, some small and relatively unnoticed and others as cataclysmic as a world-wide conflict.

Paintings, protest and propaganda: A visual history of warfare

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/depicting-war-through-art/index.html

A classical design for the forthcoming National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.

https://www.civicart.org/national-world-war-i-memorial

https://www.nps.gov/wwim/index.htm

A reminder from Indian WWI soldiers on the cost of war

https://scroll.in/magazine/916712/bombs-going-off-like-the-rains-in-sawan-a-reminder-from-indian-wwi-soldiers-on-the-cost-of-war

A First World War poem by French poet Adrienne Blanc-Peridier

https://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-first-world-war-poem-by-french-poet.html?m=1

Bavarian War Memorial (Kriegerdenkmal)

https://pietistschoolman.com/2012/01/25/commemorating-wwi-part-4/

Dulce et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen