Debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic”
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Denmark now has two Little Mermaids. The famous one is suing.
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Verdigris: The color of oxidation, statues, and impermanence
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Citizens in Greenland are voting on whether to keep a controversial statue of a Hans Egede, seen as a symbol of Danish colonialism
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The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish”
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You want a Confederate monument? My body is a Confederate monument (sexual assault trigger warning)
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Anne Barton, the great-granddaughter of Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton, has thrown her support behind a campaign to remove his statue from an Indigenous burial site
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Police in Greenland have detained a man in connection with the vandalism of a statue of a Danish colonizer that was doused with red paint
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Unknown vandals scrawled 'Free Hong Kong' in red paint on the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen
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After weeks of vandalism, the controversial statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Malmö has finally been knocked over
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A statue of former Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been built in his hometown in Sweden
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Removing love locks from bridges and statues
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture - Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
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How 'counter-monuments' can solve the debate over controversial historical statues
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How did Easter Islanders lift statues' thirteen-ton hats? Researchers may have the answer.
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