Clean-up for statues in Sam Sharpe Square
A team from the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) has been deployed to clean the statues in Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay, which were defaced recently. Eight members from the conservation unit ...
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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right
In June 2020, protesters in Richmond used ropes to pull down the bronze statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, splashed paint on its surface and slung a toilet paper noose around its neck.
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Painting the town: The story behind Athens’ iconic bulldog statues
Vibrant colors swirl on fiberglass material to create one of Athens’ most recognizable art installations: a series of bulldog ...
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No need for red paint: Taiwan finds a fix to historical statue problem
But the park is more of a statue graveyard. Some 200 bronze Chiangs have been deposited in its grounds with little fanfare since the late 1990s, many of them donated by schools and governments ...