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 […]
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 arm and lower legs cut […]
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 […]
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 he was relieved it was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s lion statue vandalized again
Independent Florida Alligator, FL - Feb 24, 2008
By KATE KENNEDY , Alligator Contributing Writer Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity’s lion statue outside the chapter’s house was smashed again Friday - just a …
Bennington Monument cleanup half done Graffiti gone, stain remains
Rutland Herald, VT - Feb 26, 2008
14, police learned the monument had been vandalized with the word “Heroes” spray painted in red on the north side and “F—- Bush” and the symbol for anarchy, …
