by Susan | Oct 12, 2015 | Monuments
Palomas de la Paz is known by the locals as “La Cola de la Ballena,” because, although it represents two dove in profile, also bears the shape of a whale’s tale, in honor of the many species of whale that populate the Sea of Cortez, as well as the...
by Susan | Oct 5, 2015 | Monuments
After the 1968 shootings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto led a voluntary gun turn-in program that accumulated a symbolic 1,968 weapons. Beniamino Bufano, a Bay Area artist, was asked to sculpt something with the melted gun...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2015 | Monuments
The James Meredith monument was dedicated in 2006 a symbol of racial reconciliation for a state that continues to struggle with how to move forward from a violently racist past. It commemorates the 1962 enrollment of James Meredith at Ol’ Miss, forced by Federal...
by Susan | Sep 21, 2015 | Monuments
“Non-Violence” is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an over-sized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Carl made this sculpture after singer, songwriter and peace activist...
by Susan | Sep 14, 2015 | Monuments
When this statue was unveiled in 1995, the UK Independent called it a “tank sandwich.” The 5,000 ton pyramid was designed by Armand Fernandez, who tried to peddle the concept to the city of Strasbourg, France during D-Day celebrations in the early 1970s...
by Susan | Sep 11, 2015 | Monuments
This skeletal house was installed Buffalo Bayou in 1990 in commemoration of the French Bicentennial. The images embedded in the gables abstractly reflect issues of human rights, freedom of expressions, contemplative ideas, elements of history and contemporary...
