Sensei-tion: Kyoto U’s Much-Defaced Orita Bust
A bronze bust of the late educator Hikoichi Orita was vandalized so often, Kyoto University administrators put it into storage – still, the students persisted. Orita-sensei played an ...
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Calm & Centered: Cemetery Tunnel Trek Reveals Huge Hill-Wrapped Buddha
A massive landscape intervention near Sapporo, Japan by architect Tadao Ando both conceals and reveals a 40-foot statue of the Buddha in the midst of a rural cemetery. The designer ...
Fearless Girl: Powerful Statue Faces Down Famous Charging Bull of Wall Street
Located in the heart of the financial district in New York City, the Charging Bull statue has long been an icon of the industry, but now faces its first opponent: a young girl cast in ...
Full of Hot Air: Clever Urban Monuments Conceal Exhaust Shafts
Fenced off or set back from streets and sidewalks and often raised on platforms as well, civic monuments are oddly ideal candidates for concealing a peculiar secondary function: the ventilation ...
Color Me Patriotic: Ukraine’s Protestor-Painted Lenin Statues
As the Ukraine strives to break free from all things Russian, some unlikely allies – Soviet-era statues of Lenin – have been enlisted to wave the flag. ...
What Drumsticks! 12 Thanksgiving Turkey Statues
From “jive turkeys” to WKRP's notorious televised Thanksgiving airdrop, turkeys have historically gotten less respect than the late Rodney Dangerfield... or have they? These 12 tall & ...
Heavy Metal Man: 50-ton Gigantor Statue Gives Kobe Hope
Can a giant robot save Japan? Yes, yes it can! Well, sort of... in the city of Kobe, a 50-ton statue of Gigantor standing nearly 60 ft tall was built to spark and symbolize the city's recovery in ...
Art in Chains: Fine Art Sculpture Goes Heavy Metal
Chains are seldom used for any higher purpose than securing a bike against a railing, except in these cases, where artists have used their imaginations and metalworking skill to come up with ...
Futuristic Sculpture: Robot Statues and Found Creations
Humans love to anthropomorphize robots, and whether we make them gigantic and towering, or small and decorative, there's an appeal to their futuristic styling and human-esque forms. Many artists ...
Artistic Liberties: 15 Faces of the Statue of Lady Liberty
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free!" These words, bronzed into the foundation of the Statue of Liberty have been a symbol of hope and freedom for nearly ...
