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The Crying Giant, 10-ft tall bronze maquette sculpture by Tom Otterness. Versions are displayed in Kansas City, Delaware, and the Netherlands. Intended as a 9/11 memorial, the full sculpture was intended to include tears dripping into pools, with an elevator to an observation level.

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Christian Charity, by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1810, at the Louvre. "From the Renaissance, Charity was represented as a woman tending to children."

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Interior chapel of Mont St Michel, Normandie, France.

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Greenwich - Prime Meridian. GPS coordinates show the actual meridian about 100 meters east of this in-ground installation at the Greenwich Observatory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_m...

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“In A Position To Know”, cover illustration by Coles Phillips, 1921. The use of fewer colors required viewer engagement and saved costs for the publisher.

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Long Pond 2, by Virginia Bradley, 2017.

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Is that a Penny Hardy sculpture hanging out in Kennett Square?

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Monumental Holistic VII, by Betty Gold, 1980. 14 ft tall steel work by bettygold.com

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Mirrored Labyrinth NY, 2016, by Jeppe Hein. ncartmuseum.org/find-yoursel... www.jeppehein.net

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Payphone-free 4-phone kiosk.

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Rachel Ruysch's "Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Ledge" applies concepts of portraits - detail decreasing toward the rear, colors faded and blurring toward the rear - to create a 3-D depiction of detailed flowers. Court painter in Dusseldorf, and the first woman in the Hague's artist society.

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Big Banana on a Spring, by Dakota Pratt (flattened bottle caps are the skin). On display with cherries and other works at the Madison Arts Festival, 2016. chloefinearts.com/artist/dakot...

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Still Life with Two Plums, blown glass in an alder bowl. By Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2000. On display at the Corning Museum of Glass. See them making big fruit in their Pilchuck hot shop: youtu.be/aC0AH5d-QwU?...

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Pomegranate bonsai, Longwood Gardens. Trained since 1910.

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"After the flyers are removed from the telephone pole in a college town and just the staples are left" - Madison, WI. Collective work.

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For artists who respect the media they’re working with - like 300-million-year-old stones- this vandalism is appalling. Do better, Bend. www.centraloregondaily.com/news/local/c...

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Traffic Light Tree by Pierre Vivant, 1998. Moved to this location in the center of a roundabout on Isle of Dogs in 2014. Its 75 sets of lights were originally to reflect London Stock Exchange activity but a random pattern was implemented instead.

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Spoonbridge and Cherry, Walker Art Museum grounds, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1988. walkerart.org/collections/... Visitor experience: www.lostwithyvonne.com/spoonbridge-...

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Trajans Column, Rome, constructed in the year 113. Made from Carrera marble, the disks are hollow in the center, where a staircase leads to the top platform.

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An alternative to electric stations and gas stations: air pumps. (Copenhagen airport.)

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The Mosesbrunnen - a statue of Moses that revises earlier depictions showing Moses with horns (aligned with Jerome's translation) to instead depiction radiance (via the Septuagint). Bern, Switzerland. Built 1544, rebuilt 1791. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosesbr...

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Molecule by Mark di Suvero, 2015. Minneapolis, outside the Guthrie. millcitytimes.com/news/2nd-scu...

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Glass spill.

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Le Magicien, in its original installation outside the Rennes train station (2005-14) before being moved to the gardens (see prior post). www.sanejouand.com/en/art/sculp...

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"Beata Beatrix" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870. Modeled after Rosetta's deceased wife and model Elizabeth Siddal, in a setting based on a poem by Dante Alighieri. Siddal was an artist, painter and poet, with 17 of her works in a 2023 Tate exhibition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...

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The book you should be getting a fellow Earthling for Christmas: www.lawrence.edu/articles/bjo...

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36th parallel marker, US. 36'30 marked the dividing line for the Missouri Compromise. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

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Memorial to the first 'genocide' victims, the 1915 extermination of Assyrian civilians by the Ottoman Empire. Statue in public park, Locarno, Switzerland, 2016. History: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia... Unveiling: www.aina.org/news/2016061... Genocide: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael...

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"From Block to Body", exhibit at Ny Carlsberg Glypototeket, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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BOK Building (repurposed school) hallway, Philadelphia.

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Floral clock, created in 1955 to honor the local watchmaking tradition in Geneva, Switzerland.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_C... The Cairo Citadel Clock, 1846 - what the Ottomans received in return for the Luxor obelisk, now out of storage and ticking.

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Luxor Obelisk, Paris. One of a pair, each from a single piece of red granite 3000 years ago. Moved to the Place de la Concorde in 1836. In return, the Ottomans received a clock that has rarely worked.

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MamaRay, by Wangechi Mutu, 2020.

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Group of Bears, by Paul Manship, 1960. Brought inside to the Met cafeteria.

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"Hands That Picked Cotton Now Pick Our Public Officials" by Ed Dwight - a test pilot, astronaut, sculptor, and the oldest person to fly in space. Other versions are titled "Hands That Picked Cotton Now Cast Their Votes". fordlibrarymuseum.tumblr.com/post/6426543...

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Sturgeon Water Fountain, with levels for adults and kids and a center bowl for pets, stainless steel, 2014. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, VT. www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/l...

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"Scientist and Nature" aka the Duke University Camel Statue, by Jonathan Kingdon, in honor of Duke professor of biology Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, 1993. today.duke.edu/2024/05/came....

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Reverence, aka Whale Tails, on I-89 outside of Burlington, Vermont. 36 tons of African black granite.

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Couple on Seat, by Lynn Chadwick, 1984. Canary Wharf, London.

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Le Magician (The Magician), Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Jardin du Palais Saint-George in Rennes Fr.

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