Etichetta: statua
King Kong statue returns to Birmingham for Commonwealth Games
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When the British pop artist Nicholas Monro was asked to make a public sculpture for Birmingham in the 1970s, he raised a few eyebrows when he produced an 18ft fibreglass statue of King Kong. “It was really just a fing...
‘Unwanted junk’: Earth Goddess statue prompts unholy reaction in St Austell
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Towering above a square in the Cornish town of St Austell, it is the tallest ceramic sculpture in the UK and possibly the world, a south-west of England answer to the Angel of the North. But the installation this week...
Comedian John Oliver offers to buy Melbourne’s ‘demonic’ banana statue
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Comedian John Oliver has offered to buy a controversial banana statue that was pulled off the streets of Melbourne after being attacked by vandals The $22,000, 1.8m tall anthropomorphic fibreglass banana was commissio...
Statua di Pietro il Grande, Il regalo di Vladimir Putin ai londinesi, danneggiato in tentata rapina
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Una statua di Pietro il Grande a Deptford, Londra sud, che il governo di Vladimir Putin donato al Regno Unito è stato danneggiato in un tentativo di rapina, lasciando un conto di riparazione diplomaticamente imbarazzante di migliaia di sterline. M ...
‘It’s very divisive’: Margaret Thatcher’s statue splits birthplace of Grantham
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It may have been a week since the residents of Grantham were surprised by the appearance of a long-anticipated statue of Margaret Thatcher, but the dust is showing no signs of settling just yet. After an arduous four-...
Il membro dello staff della Leicester University "non condona" la statua della Thatcher
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Un'università ha affermato di "non condonare alcuna forma di deturpazione" dopo che uno dei suoi dipendenti è stato fotografato mentre lanciava un uovo a 6 metri (20ft) bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher. The controversial £300,000 statue was inst...
Margaret Thatcher statue egged within hours of it being installed
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Warnings that a new statue of Margaret Thatcher would attract egg-throwing protests came true within two hours of it being installed in her home town of Grantham on Sunday. The bronze statue was, without ceremony, pla...
Quiz sportivo della settimana: arrivals, departures, stats and a statue
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Kyiv dismantles Ukraine-Russia friendship statue – video
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Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a large Soviet-era monument in the centre of Kyiv meant to symbolise friendship between Russia and Ukraine in response to Moscow's invasion, according to the city's mayor. The eig...
ha trovato un maledetto rapporto ufficiale
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Una statua in bronzo del re belga del XIX secolo Leopoldo II nel centro di Bruxelles potrebbe essere fusa e trasformata in un monumento ai milioni di persone che morirono durante il suo brutale governo del Congo Belga e altre vittime ...
Où est Voltaire? Mystery of Parisian statue solved
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What would the City of Light be without one of its Enlightenment luminaries? Per 18 months concerned Parisians have missed a statue of philosopher and historian Voltaire, which disappeared from its plinth in August 20...
Damaged Colston statue should be displayed in museum, commission finds
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The toppled statue of the Bristol slave trader Edward Colston should be displayed in a city museum – horizontally and still daubed with paint – and its former plinth topped with temporary artworks but sometimes left e...
Uomo arrestato dopo aver danneggiato la statua fuori dalla BBC Broadcasting House
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Un uomo è stato arrestato mercoledì dopo aver danneggiato una statua fuori dalla BBC's Broadcasting House. Gli agenti sono stati chiamati a riferire di un uomo che ha scalato l'edificio a Portland Place, Londra centrale, Londra centrale.
Attorney general ‘considering’ referring Colston statue case to appeal court
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The attorney general has said she is “carefully considering” whether to refer the Colston statue case to the court of appeal after a jury cleared four protesters of criminal damage over the toppling of the monument. S...
Minister vows to close ‘loophole’ after court clears Colston statue topplers
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Britain is not a country where “destroying public property can ever be acceptable”, a cabinet minister has said, as Conservative MPs vented their frustration at four people being cleared of tearing down a statue of th...