A statue of a Revolutionary War general was removed from City Hall in Albany, New York, on Saturday over his ownership of slaves. City workers removed the statue of Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler before loading it onto a trailer and hauling it to a storage facility. The statue’s removal fulfilled an executive order that Democratic…

A marble statue carved in the 18th century has become world-renowned for an “impossible” feature: a delicately draping fisherman’s net with detailed knots, rendered by hand entirely from marble, that looks so authentic it could be the real thing. Il Disinganno, or “The Release from Deception,” is the magnum opus of the Genoese artist Francesco…

A new statue that has been placed on top of a Manhattan courthouse is sparking controversy among New Yorkers as well as a former White House adviser. The statue was made by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander, 53, and has been erected on the roof of the courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department of the State…

A woman alleged to have organised a protest that led to a statue being toppled into Bristol Harbour has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges relating to fundraising pages she allegedly set up in June 2020. Xahra Saleem, 22, of Romford, east London, appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday accused of two counts of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The statue of a 19th-century Northern California rancher and meat-packing magnate was decapitated earlier this week, leaving investigators in the state’s capital city scratching their heads to find a motive behind the vandalism. Tipsters could receive a $1,000 reward for information about what befell the nearly century-old granite statue of Charles Swanston in Sacramento’s…

Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered more than two dozen beautifully preserved bronze statues dating back to ancient Roman times in thermal baths in Tuscany, in what experts are hailing as a sensational find. “From the bottom of the pool at the lowest point of its monumental construction, 24 masterpieces of bronze statues between the 2nd…

The toppling of the Edward Colston statue during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 was “violent” and therefore the defendants were not protected by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the UK’s Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday. The ruling does not overturn the acquittal of criminal damage charges against the four defendants. On…

A statue of the first British female prime minister has been egged and booed within hours after it was erected in her hometown on Sunday. Less than two hours after the 20-foot-tall statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher was lowered onto its 10-foot-high granite plinth in Grantham, Lincolnshire, a protester threw eggs from behind a temporary fence surrounding…

HONG KONG—The sculptor of a statue commemorating the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square clampdown said on Friday that its removal from a Hong Kong university was “brutal” but any damage would be symbolic of recent changes in the city under Chinese rule. The eight-meter (26-foot) sculpture of anguished human torsos was one of the…

Two more universities in Hong Kong erased public artwork commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, mainly students, known as the Tiananmen Massacre. Just before dawn on Dec. 24, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) took down  a statue depicting a woman holding a flame. The 21-foot tall bronze sculpture, named “Goddess of Democracy,”…