Warning to all sculptors, avoid taking on any commissions from Bristol’s Millennium Square. They don’t seem to like public art there. A life-size bronze sculpture of martyr William Tyndale is the latest victim of vandals. Poor old Tyndale, who’s claim to fame was to be the first person to translate the Bible into English, has […]
Oh No, the statue of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) founder, M. G. Ramachandran at Thothukudi has been damaged. AND before you all go running for you atlases, Thothukudi is a city and a Municipal corporation in Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (whew). The broken statue was discovered by […]
Brockport : A fiberglass sculpture of a mule has been “cow tipped” less than two days after it was placed along the Erie Canal. The Mule which cost $1,600 was smashed to smithereens, leaving a community devastated.Lori Skogg the chairman of the Arts and Aesthetics Committee of the Walk! Bike! Action! Group in the village […]
What is a Brisbane council to do when a vandal goes and paints a vagina on a statue PINK? Remove it quick. But the poor old council are under attack for being prudish. Prior to the statue receiving a paint job, the council was already praying the controversial statue (which depicts a naked woman lying […]
Bless those surveillance cameras. Two men and a woman were seen on tape kicking the hell out of a fiberglass horse outside the Roohan Realty building, in Saratoga Springs. In between taking breaks on a park bench, the three vandals took about 20 minutes to break the horse’s two rear legs. They were last seen […]
The statue of the lark trapped in barbed wire, which honors the Irish Hunger strikers, in Free Derry (Northern Ireland) has been damaged . The lark which sat on top of the H Block shaped structure near Free Derry Corner, was removed in the incident. The Irish tricolour, which is raised to commemorate the anniversary […]
Tut, tut, tut, Finnish tourist, you should have known better than damaging a heritage listed piece of public art. Marko Kulju, 26, is looking at a hefty prison sentence, after he was seen tearing off the earlobe off a Moai statue on Easter Island this week.
The island has 400 of these huge stone statues which […]
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Laws takes axe to ‘tacky’ carvings
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Mar 13, 2008
The council donated the trunks in the name of public art and Mr Richdale spent seven days creating the carvings. He says he tended the carvings and …
Proud citizens of a world apartLiverpool Daily Post, UK - Mar 3, 2008He inspired in me a sense of curiosity about public art in particular. He made me think of history as physical and that it was only history if someone …
Calgarian’s mural lost in 17th Avenue business fire
Calgary Herald, Canada - Feb 27, 2008
A $2-million fire that demolished two shops and altered the landscape of a corner on trendy 17th Avenue SW also erased a prominent work of public art. …
