What to do when you have 43 20-foot-tall busts of nearly every U.S. president and nowhere to put them? This was the problem that Howard Hankins found himself facing in 2010, after Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the giant busts had been on display, closed down. The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, who was …
I believe I have an answer to our statue problem. There are two ways to look at what happened this week in Charlottesville, Va. One is as a crisis over racism, anti-Semitism and violence. The other is as a crisis over the removal of Robert E. Lee on a horse. …
Humans have been building statues and taking them down for a very long time. THE ONGOING CONTROVERSY OVER CONFEDERATE statues, which has seen these monuments removed from public spaces in more than a dozen locations in the past couple years, is the renewal of a historical tradition that has been going on for …
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return to Cambodia two 10th-century Khmer statues that Cambodian officials had declared were looted from a jungle redoubt and given to the Met in stages more than 20 years ago. On Friday the museum confirmed accounts from Cambodian officials that it intended …
Family groceries are still the norm in India, but the government plans to allow international supermarkets to operate in the country, and a shopping revolution seems inevitable. The first thing Devendra, the manager of my regular grocery store, does when he opens up each morning, is tend to two small …
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The Cambodian government is convinced that two life-size 10th-century statues that have anchored the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Southeast Asian galleries for nearly two decades were looted from a jungle temple and plans to ask for their return. “The government is very serious about moving this forward, and we are …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Architect Frank Gehry and his design team are proposing changes to the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington after hearing complaints from Ike’s family for months. The family had complained the design focuses too much on Eisenhower’s humble Kansas roots, rather than his accomplishments. Gehry has …
A Cairo teenager found a priceless statue of Pharaoh Akhenaton near a rubbish bin after it had been stolen from the Egyptian Museum during the anti-regime protests. The museum’s world renowned collection was burgled and several artefacts went missing last month, including statues of King Tutankhamun and Pharaoh Akhenaton. Teenager …