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The Evidence Room: Best of Season 1

Houston – Thousands of boxes sit on shelves representing the stories of real people from around the Houston area. Those boxes contain the evidence from horrific crimes juries examined to determine a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Using Art to Talk About the Holocaust in ‘The Evidence Room’

The Evidence Room represents thousands of pages of testimony that was assembled by Robert Jan van Pelt, an architectural historian and the main expert witness in a British lawsuit brought by a ...
Click2Houston

Behind the scenes of ‘The Evidence Room’: 10 unique things you might not have known

‘The Evidence Room’ is KPRC 2′s national award-winning docuseries, looking back at some of the most notorious crimes in Texas history. (KPRC) HOUSTON – ‘The Evidence Room’ is the KPRC 2 Investigates ...
Hyperallergic

A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

Interior perspective of The Evidence Room (image courtesy the Hirshhorn Museum, photo by Fred Hunsberger, University of Waterloo School of Architecture) WASHINGTON, DC — In 1996, a Holocaust denier ...
Washington Post

Will our migrant detention cages be studied in tomorrow’s museums?

“The Evidence Room” at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exposes the small details, calculated by many people who were “just following orders,” that added up to a horrifically efficient ...
insider.si.edu

The Evidence Room

Designed and built for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, The Evidence Room draws upon extensive archival research to recreate incriminating architectural features of Auschwitz that were ...