http://publicartonline.net/damaged Reporting on damaged and vandalized public art from around the world Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:58:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/damaged-public-art/public-art-in-bristols-millennium-square/ A massive marble sculpture (well, bits of it) depicting the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (you'll remember him from the film Gladiator....here is a clue, he was played by Richard Harris!) has been unearthed at an archaeological site in Turkey. So far they have found the 3ft head, 5ft-long right ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/public-art/roman-emperor-marcus-aurelius-unearthed/ Some poor soul visiting the Royal Academy's summer exhibition this week tripped and slid straight into Christina , a 9ft sculpture by the Costa Rican artist Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez. How would you be? The sculpture shattered into a thousands pieces as I presume the culprit did too. Just to add ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/accidental/visitor-accidently-destroys-sculpture/ Williams Hardwood Flooring company are offering a $500 for the "two white males" caught on security cameras breaking the arm off their wooden sculpture of a carpenter. Watch out boys, they are none too pleased. A spokesman for the Akron, Ohio company stated "The reward is not for the arm, ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/missing-limbs/arm-missing-from-carpenter-sculpture/ 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 ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/damaged-public-art/statue-of-m-g-ramachandran-damaged/ 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! ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/damaged-public-art/fiberglass-mule-sculpture-shattered/ 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 ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/damaged-public-art/thats-rude-isnt-it/ It seems the poor old 7ft ant sculpture, which was installed in Market Square, Portsmouth, has been vandalized again. Police Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn noticed that the ant had white antennae as he went to get his Starbucks fix. Nathan Walker, the sculpture, was notified about the recent attack. I bet ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/picking-on-ant-statues/ant-that-a-shame/ 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 ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/damaged-public-art/horse-kicking-caught-on-camera/ 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 ... http://publicartonline.net/damaged/damaged-public-art/bogside-monument-vandalised/