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Artists Sue City of Memphis for Painting Over Sanctioned Murals
Twelve artists who created murals at the behest of nonprofit Paint Memphis, Inc. are suing the city for buffing five of the murals and threatening to erase three more.
Public Art
Interview
Artist's Phallus Murals Challenge Viewers "to Think Deeper, Longer, Wider, Harder"
Two of Carolina Falkholt's murals of giant phalluses have been painted over recently, but she sees them as catalysts for important and difficult conversations.
In Brief
"Fearless Girl" Moving to Permanent Spot Near the New York Stock Exchange
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a "Fearless Girl" fan, hopes Arturo Di Modica's "Charging Bull" will move with it.
In Brief
French Theater Troupe Plans Fantastical Hanging Garden Inspired by Jules Verne and Leonardo
The Heron's Tree is an urban garden designed as a 114-foot-tall, 165-feet-wide tree, poised to rise in the western French city of Nantes.
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Controversial Fountain Showing Armed White Settler and Native American Will Be Removed and Preserved
The Kalamazoo fountain, built in 1940, has been called “horrendous,” “a monument to mistreatment,” and "evil."
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Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Enslaved Women Removed from Central Park
The monument to J. Marion Sims will eventually be installed, along with a display adding historical context, near his grave in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.
Art
A Botanic Garden Invited Artists to Transform Centuries-Old Trees Felled by a Storm
After dozens of trees — some as old as 250 years — came down in Bengaluru's Lalbagh Botanical Gardens last October, woodcarvers gave them new life.
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New Public Sculpture Will Honor Court Case That Expanded Rights for Asian Americans
A public sculpture in New Mexico will commemorate a little-known court ruling that gave Asian Americans the right to testify before a judge.
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An Unsanctioned Artistic Tribute to the Polish President Who Died in a Plane Crash
To mark the eighth anniversary of President Lech Kaczyński's death in a plane crash, Polish artist Pawel Althamer brought a renegade tribute to the presidential palace in Warsaw.
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Artist's Billboard Declaring “There Are Black People in the Future” Taken Down by Landlord
The billboard in Pittsburgh was initially removed due to "objections to the content," but a recent wave of support suggests the sign could go back up.
Art
Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square
The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans.
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Denmark's First Public Monument to a Black Woman Celebrates a 19th-Century Freedom Fighter
"I Am Queen Mary," installed in Copenhagen, was inspired by Mary Thomas, who led a major uprising on the former Danish colony of St. Croix.