by Susan | Sep 7, 2015 | Monuments
When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show came to Paris to perform, Utah sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin had several Indians pose for him as models. In 1889, he began working on a sculpture depicting an Indian chief on horseback holding a staff with a feather on it, symbolizing...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2015 | Monuments
Completed in April, 2005, this sculpture is a memorial created to honor the Jews who were murdered by fascist Arrow Cross Militiamen in Budapest in 1944-45, during World War II. The Brigade would line up as many Jews as possible and shoot them on the river’s bank to...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2015 | Monuments
Dedicated on the campus of the Community College of Philadelphia in 1994, The Freedom Ring celebrates the theme of freedom as it relates to peoples and cultures migrating across oceans in pursuit of refuge in Philadelphia. A “cosmogram” 24-feet in diameter, the...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2015 | Monuments
Today is the anniversary of the 1962 murder of East German bricklayer Peter Fechter, who was shot crossing the Berlin Wall. A cross was quickly placed on the western side near the spot where Fechter was shot and slowly bled to death. At the invitation of Willy Brandt,...
by Susan | Aug 10, 2015 | Monuments
A new public artwork inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of non-violence was unveiled July 29th at Pittman-Sullivan Park on the city’s East Side.The 32-foot tall sculpture, entitled “Open Hand, Open Mind, Open Heart,” consists of perforated steel and...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2015 | Monuments
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑 Hiroshima heiwa kinenhi), commonly called the Atomic Bomb Dome or Genbaku Dōmu (原爆ドーム, A-Bomb Dome), in Hiroshima, Japan, is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The...
