Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a request to the architect of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday asking for a statue of a Confederate general to be replaced with one of a civil rights leader.
A Florida statue based on the iconic “Kissing Sailor” photo depicting a sailor kissing a woman to celebrate the end of World War II was vandalized shortly after news broke that the World War II veteran in the photo died.
A statue planned for the former prime minister’s home town of Grantham will need to be put on a plinth ten feet high to protect it from vandals, police have said.
A bronze statue dedicated to the former crack-smoking Democratic mayor of Washington D.C., Marion Barry, has been erected just blocks from the White House.
As the late Rev. Billy Graham lay in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda this week before his Friday burial in North Carolina, some state lawmakers are proposing a more permanent tribute to the late pastor.
A statue honoring President Theodore Roosevelt which stands in front of New York’s American Museum of Natural History was vandalized with red paint on Thursday, according to reports.
More than 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for a statue of Ray Lewis that sits outside M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, to be removed after the player knelt during the national anthem.
Philadelphia police arrested a man Friday in connection with a spray-painted message on the statue of former Mayor and Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo. Per Philly.com, the man arrested is 40-years-old. Charges are still pending, but he is expected to be charged with criminal
A growing number of people on social media are calling for Seattle’s statue of Communist A growing number of people on social media are calling for the removal of Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin’s statue in Seattle. Vladimir Lenin to be removed.
Authorities in Bangladesh have removed a statue located in the Dhaka from the public square after an Islamist outcry over its presence.
LONDON (AP) — A recreation of an ancient sculpture destroyed by the Islamic State group is among finalists for a place amid the tourists and statues in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Artist Daniel Edwards has created a nude sculpture of actor Tom Cruise to commemorate his 25-year involvement with the Church of Scientology, which is complete with rather impressive genitalia that has people talking.
This week, Gov. Jerry Brown, who was once a Jesuit seminarian, asserted that he will block California legislators from attempting to replace the statue of Father Junípero Serra in the National Statuary Hall Collection on Capitol Hill with a statue of astronaut Sally Ride.
