Viewfinder: The Weeping Window Exhibition Finishes Its U.K. Tour

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Oct 5, 2018

The installation Poppies: Weeping Window opens at the Imperial War Museum in London on October 4th, 2018, its final destination in a United Kingdom-wide tour. Composed of several thousand handmade ceramic poppies, the sculpture honors those lost in World War I, which ended 100 years ago next month.
(Photo: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for 14-18 NOW)

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