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.
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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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The statue's sculptor said it carried a message of friendship between Turkey and Armenia
