Nothing hurts like a thousand daggers to the
heart as a tale of love that fails to meet its happy end. This one here
is a real-life representation of two fictional lovers, who get separated
at the hands of fate, at the end of a popular 1937 novel Ali and Nino: A Love Story.
Kurban Said, who penned the novel, writes how Ali, a Muslim boy, and
Nino, a Georgian princess, fall in love but never unite due to the
invasion of the Soviet Union. Beautifully translated into two
26-foot-tall steel statues by Georgian sculptor Tamara Kvesitadze, a
tragic saga of love finds immortality in the rarest of rare forms.
Every day, at 7 PM, the statues of Ali and Nino move towards each other...
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...to unite in a short embrace before getting separated.
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Even though there are no beating hearts, one can't help but feel the
immense pain of separation and longing that follows after the statues
move away...
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It takes all of 10 minutes for this cycle to reach its inevitable
end. An end that acts as a reminder for us mortal beings of the depth of
true love, and the burning desire to hold on...
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Till the very end.
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A bronze bust of the second Māori king's head has finally been unveiled today at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato..
The unveiling of the statue of Kīngi Tāwhiao Matutaera Potatau Te
Wherowhero saw the Hamilton City Council work closely with Kingi
Tūheitia to coincide the public reveal with Hamilton’s 150th
anniversary.
It’s been a long time coming. NZ artist Gary Schofield created the
statue in the 1980s and was eventually proposed for it to be donated to
King Tūheitia, who in turn would donate it to the Waikato city.
Before that, it spent nearly three decades on display in Mr Schofield’s Hamilton home.
Mr Schofield, who went to Southwell School with King Tūheitia back in
the days, now resides in the US, but will be attending the unveiling
ceremony today.
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We have several styles of desktop to monumental bronze dinosaur skulls available, www.bigbronze.com
How a $1.8 million dinosaur skull went from Montana to Hong Kong
This 65 million-year-old male Triceratops skull is on sale for $1.8 million.
As a young man growing up in Montana, Ray Novakovich made a hobby
of hunting for fossils and unusual rocks on his family's plot of land.
But it wasn't until 1992, when he was about 70 years old, that
Novakovich spotted the rock formation that would be his greatest
discovery.
"It dawned on him what was sticking up out of
the ground -- it was the tip of two [dinosaur] horns," said Cliff
Linster, an amateur dinosaur hunter who excavated the fossil.
Due to a lack of resources, the fossil wasn't unearthed and cleaned
until 2003, after Novakovich had sold the property. The new owner posted
an Internet ad for the dinosaur, and Linster bought the rights.
That fossil -- a 65 million-year-old male Triceratops skull found in
Glendive, Montana -- has since changed hands a number of times and is
now on sale in Hong Kong with a minimum asking bid of $1.8 million.
Digging for dinosaur fragments in Montana is a big business -- local
buffs routinely search for bones and dinosaur expeditions are a top
tourist attraction. Rare fossils are prized by private collectors and
museums, and top specimens can yield huge sums. "Sue," the largest T-Rex
fossil ever found, sold for a record $8.5 million in 1997, and is on
display at the Field Museum in Chicago.
The Triceratops skull,
dubbed "Dragon King," is unique because of its size, Linster said. The
fossilized skull is 95% complete bone, over 9 feet long, 5.2 feet high
and 4.6 feet wide.
But is it really worth nearly $2 million?
"Well, there's no blue book on dinosaurs -- it's not like buying a car,"
he said. Buyers should look at "the condition of it, how much is
original bone, how much of it was prepared, if it had to be restored,
the type of dinosaur and how rare it is -- all those factors enter into
it."
Fossils are usually embedded in rock, though parts can be
exposed as a result of weathering. With "Dragon King," the sand grains
around the skull had fused together to form a hard coating over the
bone. It took Linster, his wife and two of his kids -- dinosaur hunting
is a family pastime -- a week just to dig it out of the ground.
When it finally came out, the entire thing weighed three tons -- plenty
of rock still had to be chiseled off. It typically takes around 20,000
labor hours to clean a large fossil, a process that can include using
small tools, like dental picks, and restoration work. While the skull
was fairly complete, the horns and frill around the back still needed
work.
"That was the part that was exposed for who knows how many thousands of years ... so some of that was gone," Linster said.
Final cleaning of the skull was done by Barry James, another dinosaur
expert. Linster sold the fossil for $35,000, and it was shipped to Asia a
few years later, he recalled.
The private sale of the
1,300-pound dinosaur skull is being managed by Brian Lerner and Anna
Leong of Evolved Ltd.; the pair started accepting bids earlier this
week. Lerner and Leong moved their business from New York to Asia in
1993, swinging between Hong Kong and Singapore. Related: Discount private island sells for $38 million
But Hong Kong "is where we like to be -- it's where we think the future
is," Lerner said. "All the auction houses are booming here; Art Basel
is here -- the whole scene has gotten quite sizable."
Dinosaur
fossils can be a lucrative investment for private collectors -- the
T-Rex fossil that sold in 1997 is now worth $12.5 million, Lerner said,
representing a 50% increase on the purchase price.
Novakovich has passed away, and calls to relatives weren't returned. Barry James couldn't be reached for comment.
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One thing you will never have with us is a problem with sculptures that don't look correct. This statue shocked me when it was unveiled as I feel the client was blind sided. Check out our website at www.bronze-mascot.com or www.bigbronze.com as we can custom make any design, any size as we are the largest designers, manufacturers and suppliers of medium size to monumental size, bronze sculptures in the world. Our work is hands down the best and you will not be disappointed as we always include the customer in the design phase so there are no surprises when the piece arrives.
JAMESTOWN, NY -There is not much “love” coming from Lucille Ball fans in Celeron, N.Y. over a statute of the late comedienne.
According
to a “We Love Lucy! Get Ride of this Statue,” a Facebook advocating for
the statue's removal, residents are petitioning to remove the creepy
bronze fixture.
“Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown NY. She was
raised and grew up in a town about a mile from Jamestown named Celoron.
The people of Celoron have erected this horrible statue of Lucy in her
hometown. It is a nightmare. We want them to replace it,” the group
writes.
The mayor of Jamestown, which is home to the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum & Center for Comedy, told the Jamestown Post-Journal that it would cost the city between $8,000 and $10,000 to re-cast the statue, and the city refuses to use tax dollars to do so.
Lucille
Ball died at age 77 in 1989. She made a huge mark in the entertainment
industry starring in sitcoms “I Love Lucy,” “The Lucy Show,” and “Life
with Lucy”.
HURRICANE, UT -- Residents in Utah are appalled by a sign standing outside of a local restaurant.
Barista's
restaurant in Hurricane, Utah introduced a new logo of a bull. The
logo, however, exaggerates the size of the bull's male genitalia.
Some people have been calling the sign “R-rated” and many are offended by it.
The owner of Barista's, Stephen Ward, says that the sign is just merely an art form.
"That 130,000 dollar amazing piece of art is going to draw more travelers
and more tourists in here and that spells more money for Stephen Ward
and they hate that and they hate me. And that's what it's about,” he
said.
According to various reports from the media, residents are circulation petitions asking for the council “to refuse Barista's license renewal.”
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Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David
Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third
right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left)
unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central
London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft
(2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is
based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in
1931. -- PHOTO: EPA
LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma
Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British
establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial
rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader
Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in
London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron,
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri
Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in
Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian
independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering
figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi
in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our
country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the
world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal
power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast
both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the
crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site
of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British
control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and
Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a
priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi,
which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a
statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South
Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of
Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson
Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half
of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in
the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he
said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an
enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule,
according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds
(S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including
100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
- See more at:
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf
LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi
is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment
which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader
Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in
London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron,
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri
Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in
Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian
independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering
figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi
in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our
country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the
world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal
power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast
both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the
crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site
of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British
control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and
Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a
priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi,
which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a
statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South
Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of
Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson
Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half
of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in
the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he
said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an
enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule,
according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds
(S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including
100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
We are the largest designers, manufacturers and suppliers of medium size to monumental size bronze sculptures in the world. Our custom designs are priced with no ego included which saves you a lot of money. Contact us today for a quote to have your design created in bronze. www.allclassics.com, www.bigbronze.com, www.bronze-mascot.com
LONDON
(AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be
unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which
once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader
Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in
London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron,
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri
Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in
Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian
independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering
figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi
in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our
country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the
world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal
power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast
both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the
crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site
of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British
control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and
Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a
priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi,
which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a
statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South
Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of
Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson
Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half
of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in
the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he
said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an
enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule,
according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds
(S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including
100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
-
See more at:
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf
Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David
Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third
right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left)
unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central
London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft
(2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is
based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in
1931. -- PHOTO: EPA
LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma
Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British
establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial
rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader
Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in
London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron,
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri
Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in
Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian
independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering
figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi
in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our
country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the
world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal
power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast
both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the
crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site
of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British
control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and
Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a
priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi,
which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a
statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South
Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of
Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson
Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half
of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in
the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he
said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an
enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule,
according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds
(S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including
100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
- See more at:
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf
Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David
Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third
right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left)
unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central
London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft
(2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is
based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in
1931. -- PHOTO: EPA
LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma
Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British
establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial
rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader
Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in
London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron,
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri
Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in
Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian
independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering
figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi
in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our
country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the
world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal
power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast
both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the
crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site
of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British
control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and
Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a
priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi,
which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a
statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South
Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of
Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson
Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half
of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in
the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he
said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an
enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule,
according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds
(S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including
100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
- See more at:
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf
Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David
Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third
right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left)
unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central
London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft
(2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is
based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in
1931. -- PHOTO: EPA
LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma
Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British
establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial
rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader
Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in
London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron,
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri
Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in
Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian
independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering
figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi
in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our
country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the
world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal
power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast
both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the
crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site
of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British
control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and
Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a
priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi,
which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a
statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South
Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of
Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson
Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half
of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in
the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he
said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an
enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule,
according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds
(S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including
100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
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Finally
there's a way to see Luc Robitaille when he's not in motion, rare for a
man who always seems to be conducting a business meeting, embracing
fans or rooting for the team that chose him in the ninth round of the
1984 draft despite warnings his lack of speed might outweigh his
undeniable scoring touch.
On
Saturday the Kings and parent company AEG paid tribute to the
highest-scoring left wing in NHL history by unveiling a statue of
Robitaille in Star Plaza, outside Staples Center. Robitaille, now the
Kings' president of business operations, has played a huge role in the
club's history: He's their all-time goal leader (557), ranks second to
Dave Taylor in games played with 1,077, second to Marcel Dionne in
points with 1,154, and their leader in game-winning goals (73) and
power-play goals (210). Now, he truly looms large in the form of a
bronze statue that measures 19 feet tall and weighs 2,500 pounds,
including its inscribed granite base.
"It's very, very humbling,"
Robitaille said after a speech in which he thanked his family, fans and
those whose statues already stood in Star Plaza, including speakers
Wayne Gretzky and Jerry West.
Robitaille was the seventh person
honored with a statue outside of Staples Center and first in more than
two years. He joined former teammate Gretzky (2002), Lakers great Magic
Johnson (2004), boxer Oscar De La Hoya (2008), the late Lakers announcer
Chick Hearn (2010), West (2011) and Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(2012).
"I
know what Magic has meant to this city. Jerry West is the logo of the
NBA and Kareem, I watched these guys," said Robitaille, who was inducted
into the Hockey hall of Fame in 2009. "For me personally, what Wayne
Gretzky means to me and meant to the world of hockey, to be amongst
these guys is absolutely incredible."
The statue was
commissioned by Staples Center and AEG and was created by artists Julie
Rotblatt Amrany, Omri Amrany and Itamar Amrany. Julie Rotblatt Amrany
and Omri Amrany created the statues of Abdul-Jabbar, West, Johnson and
Hearn. Robitaille said he didn't pose for the sculptors and saw the
statue for the first time when it was unveiled in its
silver-black-and-white glory, with his stick upraised and smile wide in a
post-goal celebration. "I know my wife had a say in it," he said. "She
made sure the chin was right. It's pretty awesome. It's pretty special."
Lee
Zeidman, the president of Staples Center, said Saturday he had scouted
several potential locations and the sculptors came back with mockups
suitable for the spot. "We don't want to block ingress or egress or
signage," Zeidman said.
There's no definitive process for choosing
who's immortalized in bronze, according to Dan Beckerman, president and
chief executive officer of AEG. There's also no timetable.
There
are no set criteria, either, though most of the selections are obvious
because of the impact the honorees had on the Kings and Lakers even
before Staples Center existed. The debatable choice is De La Hoya, who
fought at Staples Center only once, in 2000. His presence can be
explained by a former business relationship: AEG in 2008 purchased a
minority stake in De La Hoya's company, Golden Boy Promotions, though it
sold that stake last year.
"We have a process that we go through
with a Staples Center and AEG collaboration, where we look at potential
candidates and evaluate them periodically," Beckerman said in a phone
interview. "There's not a formal submission process. We talk with the
teams and sort of come up with it informally with the management of
Staples Center and AEG."
Robitaille was an easy choice.
"I think
we've all known that at some point Luc was going to get a statue,"
Beckerman said. "He clearly blows by any criteria we would ever set up
in terms of his on-ice accomplishments, his off-ice accomplishments and
how he really transcends the game for what he's done for hockey in Los
Angeles. And really for the ambassador he's become and the leadership
that he provides today. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of
when."
Staples Center and AEG pay for the statues and Staples
Center maintains them. Robitaille joked that his mother, Madeleine, who
died of cancer last May, "is going to make sure there's no pigeons on
this thing."
Beckerman's office overlooks the plaza and based on
what he has seen, the statues of Hearn and Johnson seem to be the most
popular. He also said the statues have remained free of graffiti or
other vandalism. "People are very respectful," Beckerman said. "I love
seeing people coming by, getting off tour buses and posing with the
statues."
Who's
next? Marcel Dionne? Kobe Bryant, after he retires? Shaquille O'Neal?
And is there a cap on how many statues will stand there? Neither
Beckerman nor Robitaille would be specific, but both said they expect to
honor others in the same way.
"There are no limits, just the
physical constraints of Star Plaza," Beckerman said. "There's so many
worthy candidates, and we continue to get more and more worthy
candidates with every passing year."
The Kings' current success could lead to more hockey statues.
"I
don't know yet. But I do believe that there's room for a few more
people and the Kings have been so relevant," Robitaille said. "Staples
Center wouldn't be here if it weren't for the Kings and there's a lot of
people in the Kings organization that made a difference and certainly
there's more room for Kings people, Kings players."
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Turkey's president has been fined for making disparaging remarks about a statue in 2011.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was prime minister at the
time, described the Statue of Humanity as a "monstrosity" and suggested
it should be removed. The monument was designed to symbolise friendship
between Turkey and Armenia, and featured two 30-metre-high human
figures facing each other on a mountain above the eastern city of Kars,
close to the border between the two countries. It was never completed,
and was demolished a few months after Mr Erdogan made his remarks.
An Istanbul court has now ruled that the president must pay
sculptor Mehmet Aksoy 10,000 Turkish liras ($4,000; £2,500) in damages, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Mr Aksoy had sought 100,000 liras for the "insult" to his work, but Mr
Erdogan's lawyer argued the comments were more of a critique. In 2014,
the Turkish Language Association told the court that the word Mr Erdogan
used - "ucube", which can be translated as monstrosity or freak - is
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Individuals by Andrew Rogers at the University of Sydney.
Andrew Rogers, a contemporary Australia artist, has just given the University of Sydney a $1.4 million cast bronze sculpture.
The work, Individuals, was first exhibited in New York in 2013. The
university says it’s the most significant gift of sculpture by a living
artist in Australia.
It’s been placed outside the new Faculty of Law building at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus
Individuals was first exhibited at the gateway to the United Nations in New York City in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.
It was unveiled by Sir James Wolfensohn, the ninth President of the
World Bank, and a graduate of the University of Sydney Law School. At
the time, it was one of the largest installations of bronze cast forms
to be installed in New York.
Rogers said Individuals is a metaphor for the inseparable relationship between singularity and community.
“We are all individuals possessing the sanctity of a singular life
and the ability to express ourselves. At the same time we are part of
the society within which we live,” he said.
“With the lack of respect for the sanctity of individual life that we
see around the world today, the message of the sculpture is significant
and well placed outside the Law Faculty of a leading university.”
Made up of 15 sculptures of varying heights up to 3.5 metres, each
bronze cast form is similar yet different. Each one is balanced on a
tightly curled base which unfurls as it extends upwards and outward in
an undulating spiral movement.
One of Rogers’ monumental projects is his ongoing land art series, Rhythms of Life, which he began in 1998.
Billed as the largest contemporary land art undertaking in history,
it is made up of 51 massive stone structures in 16 countries across
seven continents and has involved more than 7,500 people.
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It is truly fascinating what you can find inside of many antique sculptures.
Quite the amazing find was discovered in the Netherlands recently
after a CT scan was taken of a 1,000-year-old Buddha sculpture. The scan
revealed that a mummy was hidden within, still sitting in a meditation
pose – but that’s not all.
The sculpture is from the 11th or 12th century and was part of the
Mummies exhibition at the World Museum in Rotterdam earlier last year.
It was recently analyzed at the Meander Medical Center, where, along
with the CT scan, samples were taken from the mummy with an endoscope.
The CT Scan revealed the remains of a mummified monk encased inside,
still sitting in what appears to be a position of meditation and said to
be in immaculate condition. This Is Colossal
further reports that “[a]mong some practicing Buddhists it’s been said
that similar mummies ‘aren’t dead’ but are instead in an advanced state of meditation.”
According to the NL Times,
the body belonged to Buddhist master Liuquan of the Chinese Meditation
School. Along with being the only one of its time, it is the only
Chinese Buddhist mummy available to the west for scientific study.
Surprisingly, the corpse wasn’t the only thing contained within the
statue. During the endoscopic procedure, scientists made another
discovery. As reported by the NL Times, gastrointestinal and liver doctor Reinoud Vermeijden “found paper scraps that are printed with ancient Chinese characters.”
The Liuquan mummy has since been taken to Hungary where it is set to
be put on display in the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest
until May 2015.
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(CNN)Two Renaissance sculptures of a nude man riding a panther may have been created by Michelangelo, says a British museum
The
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge says that the bronze sculptures, known
as the Rothschild Bronzes and dating from the 1500s, were probably
created just after the famed artist's David and just before he painted
the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. The museum and researchers
at the University of Cambridge say they have "compelling evidence" that
the works, attributed to a Dutch sculptor, are actually from
Michelangelo.
If so, they are the only surviving Michelangelo bronzes in the world, says the museum.
The key clue that the unsigned bronzes were actually done by Michelangelo came from one of the master's apprentices.
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Last
year, Paul Joannides, a Cambridge art history professor, noted that a
Michelangelo student had made a study of several Michelangelo sketches
for works believed lost. One of the drawings in the study, which dates
from 1508, matched one of the bronzes.
Further research indicated they were in Michelangelo's style, and X-rays roughly confirmed the era of their creation.
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"Even
a peroneal tendon is visible, as is the transverse arch of the foot,"
wrote University of Warwick anatomist Peter Abrahams, according to the UK Guardian.
Victoria
Avery, keeper of applied arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, described the
project to the Guardian as "a Renaissance whodunit."
She says that the museum was careful in assembling the evidence and that the works are masterpieces.
"The modeling is superb, they are so powerful and so compelling, so whoever made them had to be superb," she said.
The works -- and some of the evidence -- will be on display at the Fitzwilliam from Tuesday through August 9.
Though
the museum is confident of the works' origins, research is continuing,
and results will be presented at a conference in early July.
A
bronze statue of Ronald Reagan sustained damage Sunday morning after an
apparent theft attempt. (Photo credit: Orange County Register)
A life-size statue of former President Ronald Reagan is tilting at an
odd angle in California after someone apparently tried to make off with
it.
Photo credit: Orange County Register
The bronze statue was just dedicated last month in Newport Beach,
Calif. It remains in the park, but is broken off its foundation and is
tilting forward after someone attempted to pull it down, the Orange
County Register reported.
Newport Beach Police received a call around 5:30 a.m. Sunday of a vandalism in progress, KTLA-TV reported.
A witness said a man wearing dark clothing tried to attach a chain to
the base of the statue. The chain was connected to the back of his
truck and he seemed to be trying to pull the statue down. He was
unsuccessful and was seen fleeing into the surrounding neighborhood.
“Either someone really didn’t like Reagan or they tried to steal it
so they can sell it for scrap metal,” said police Sgt. Kirk Jacoby told
the Register.
Police are looking for suspects and officials have not released an
estimate of how much repairs will cost. The statue was dedicated a month
ago in honor of the 100th anniversary of the former president and
California governor’s birth. It was commissioned for $60,000, money that
was raised through donations.
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Christian fundamentalists are believed to be
behind the theft of a statue of a Celtic sea god from a mountain top
above Limavady.
A 5ft cross emblazoned with 'Thou Shalt Not Have False Gods
Before Me' was left behind after the thieves took an angle grinder to
the steel frame of the statue of Manannán Mac Lir. The statue was one of
five scattered across the Roe Valley as part of a Sculpture Trail aimed
at boosting tourism in 2013. The remaining four pieces of artwork were
left unscathed.
Former Limavady mayor Gerry Mullan said the theft was premeditated and was not a random act of vandalism.
He
said: "Local people are extremely angry that this statue has been
taken. It really enhanced what is already a beautiful spot from which
visitors and residents alike can sit and enjoy the view and I would
appeal to whoever took the statue to give it back."
Police are hunting the thieves and have appealed for information.
When Dick Reynolds contemplated a six-figure gift to Tufts
University, he knew it wouldn’t be enough for a new building or even a
wing. But he was thinking big.
So he commissioned an 11- by 18-foot bronze statue of the school mascot, P.T. Barnum’s storied elephant named Jumbo.
The
actual stuffed hide of the great beast—a 19th-century animal
superstar—had been displayed on the Medford, Mass., campus for decades.
Students would stuff pennies in his trunk for good luck before exams.
But, in 1975, the real Jumbo was lost in a fire.
A papier-mâché
and concrete replacement from a local amusement park served as a cheeky
stand-in beginning in the 1990s. Mr. Reynolds aims for something more
grand, and more authentic, with his 5,000-pound gift to his alma mater.
Jumbo statue model
“To know that we’re going to have one that looks like a real
elephant, I think that’s important,” says Mr. Reynolds, class of ’67.
“This thing was one god-awful, ugly, gray elephant.”
Jaw-dropping
donations are common enough at top universities, including a record
$350 million gift to Harvard University earlier this year.
But
schools also get their share of unusual legacies, reflecting their
graduates’ idiosyncratic interests. In 2005, DePauw University in
Indiana received a rhinestone-encrusted deer statue, even though the
school’s mascot is a tiger.
A wealthy shipbuilder gave Roger
Williams University in Bristol, R.I., and two other New England schools a
cruise ship in 2006. But after trying, the schools weren’t able to sell
the 137-foot Niagara Prince and gave it back.
And venture
capitalist Brad Feld in 2007 gave the University of Colorado in Boulder
$25,000, stipulating that a plaque in his honor be placed outside a
men’s restroom. (It reads: “The best ideas often come at inconvenient
times—Don’t ever close your mind to them.”)
The new Jumbo’s
journey to Tufts—125 years after the original arrived—has hit some
snags. The school staged an art exhibition, scheduled presentations on
circus history and commissioned a book, preparing for Jumbo’s arrival at
homecoming this fall.
But the statue’s creation—a complex
process that includes hard industrial foam, rubber molds, reinforced
ears, tail and trunk and a road trip from California—is coming along at a
snail’s pace.
It is now expected to make its campus debut in the spring.
ENLARGE
The mounted hide of P.T. Barnum's elephant, Jumbo, at Tufts
University near Boston, with members of the school's football team in
1935.
Tufts University
Mr. Reynolds’s gift is itself the result of an unusual
bestowal by Barnum, the famed showman and founding Tufts trustee, who
donated funds for a science building and natural history museum at the
school. In 1889, he capped those donations with Jumbo’s stuffed hide.
The
original Jumbo went down in flames in a fire that gutted the building;
some of his ashes are now held in a peanut-butter jar in the athletic
department.
For the past two decades, Tufts students have posed
next to and played with what was meant to be a temporary replacement,
the cartoonish papier-mâché statue bought by the class of 1958 for
$4,500 from the now-defunct Benson’s Wild Animal Farm amusement park in
Hudson, N.H.
“He was never meant to live that long,” says Elaine
Kasparian, who helped lead that effort, which included an additional
$35,000 for transportation and landscaping.
The amusement park
Jumbo was actually an Indian elephant, not an African one. The two are
quite different. The African elephant is much bigger in body, ears and
tusks, and has a different head shape. The elephant’s tail fell off a
few times, a casualty of student horseplay and old age. And the beast
needed an annual paint job.
That Jumbo has since been retired, though Ms. Kasparian declined to say how. “He went to heaven,” she says.
The
benefactor Mr. Reynolds, who worked mostly in commercial real estate
and served as vice president of operations at the university for three
years, says his landscaping and other efforts to spruce up the campus
were always well received. He decided on the donation in 2012.
“Other
colleges have generic bobcats and empty symbols as their mascots. We,
on the other hand, have what is arguably the most famous animal in the
world,” says Andrew McClellan, an art history professor who wrote a book
called “Jumbo: Marvel, Myth, and Mascot,” after collecting material for
years.
Artist Steven Whyte used archival pictures and zoo visits
to create small models of the elephant before beginning work on the
full-size statue at his studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. He first
built a steel skeleton of the elephant, covering it in hard foam and
then about 3,000 pounds of clay.
Individual parts, including the
trunk, ears, tail and jaw, were covered with a rubber product before
being topped with a fiberglass and plaster mold. The first coat of
rubber, costing about $15,000, didn’t set properly and needed to be
scrapped, putting the project well behind schedule.
Mr. Whyte
also says he underestimated the animal’s size by more than 100 square
feet, so he’ll lose about $25,000 on the elephant.
“It seems to be in keeping with the tragic life of Jumbo, that things didn’t go smoothly,” Mr. Whyte says.
Jumbo
was captured in Africa in 1862, when he was just a year old, according
to Mr. McClellan’s book. Among the first African elephants to reach
Europe, Jumbo became a featured attraction at the London zoo, until P.T.
Barnum bought him for $10,000 and brought him to the U.S. in 1882.
Jumbo,
whose name became synonymous with huge, was the biggest draw of the
Greatest Show on Earth. His likeness was used on toys, playing cards and
popcorn tins and pictured in ads for everything from soap to
suspenders.
Just three years into his U.S. circus career, Jumbo
was hit and killed in Canada by an unscheduled freight train in Ontario
in 1885.
Now, Jumbo’s finished bronze pieces are being assembled at a Berkeley, Calif., foundry.
Mr.
Whyte says he and his team are working through a “very difficult,
50-piece jigsaw puzzle, with each piece weighing 100 pounds.”
Though
many students are looking forward to taking selfies in front of the new
statue, some are stamping their feet, disappointed that Tufts accepted
the gift.
“Jumbo is one representation of money not being
prioritized in a way that we think it should be,” says Lior Appel-Kraut,
a sophomore and president of the Tufts Labor Coalition, which has held
demonstrations supporting the rights of adjunct instructors and
custodial workers.
School officials are disappointed about the holdup but say the wait will be worth it.
“It’ll get here when it gets here,” says Mr. McClellan. “It is going to be a big deal.”
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ROCHESTER
— A small marble statue borrowed from the downtown library here
finally made it back — 43 years after it was first taken.
Scott
Stewart, 52, of Rochester said his childhood was plagued with abuse,
but he sought refuge at the Rochester Central Library. In 1971, the
9-year-old spent his days looking at books and often borrowed art pieces
for his home.
"The house I lived in was really horrendous and I
wanted to surround it with the comfort of the library," Stewart said. "I
would always take things back, except this one piece. I felt like I
couldn't part with it."
To him, the statue of an owl protecting
its babies represented his mother's best efforts to care for him and his
brother. Though the sculpture wasn't his property, he said the piece
brought him strength and peace in turbulent times.
"I hung on to that thing and cherished it," he said. "I treated it like it was gold."
Stewart
became an emancipated minor at 13 years old and said he spent the rest
of his youth in and out of foster homes around this upstate New York
city. Forty-three years later, Stewart finally felt that the statue had
fulfilled its purpose and returned it Sunday.
"I felt like after all these years I was finally able to close the door on that chapter," he said. "It was quite exhilarating."
Although
the library's sculpture collection no longer exists, a library clerk
welcomed the statue back and pardoned Stewart of his overdue fines.
"When
we have a story like this, it makes us pause and makes us appreciate
what we do," said Ove Overmyer, communication associate for the Monroe
County Library System. "He was looking for a symbol of comfort, and he
found it at the library." Related:
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