Showing posts with label statues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statues. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Roman God-Like Man.

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"A monument is not a descriptive account of history, but instead a historical artifact that tells a story about power." I ...
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Backlash Blues.

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We've been here before. Nick Vaughn: "A Historian’s Perspective on Confederate Statues." And here. Statue removal? Yes,...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A wee rant: Why must we have statues of "famous" people? Can't we just have art instead?

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Rather than argue about which statues to remove and which to keep, I'd rather have a discussion about why humans deploy statuary as p...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Nick Vaughn: "A Historian’s Perspective on Confederate Statues."

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I first met Nick Vaughn in 2015 when he was younger than he is now (oddly, I haven't aged) and was running for city council in the Re...
Monday, June 08, 2020

And down came that accursed statue -- Colston in Bristol UK ... and also Castleman in Fischerland KY.

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Now we're getting somewhere: "Historic scenes were witnessed in Bristol over the weekend as Black Lives Matter protesters pulled d...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Sources suggest the farmers market is a likely location for the fork in the road's resurrection.

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It's a measure of the aesthetic incomprehension with which Slick Jeffrie views reality that when surveying the landscape for place to...
Monday, August 19, 2019

The Fork (and Cheese) in the Road has not been seen because Jeff Gahan is holding it hostage until someone gives him more campaign finance gravy.

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It's an election year, and all of Team Gahan's campaign-finance-enhancement construction projects are behind schedule, so the whip ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Gahan the Destroyer's war on public art: Down comes the Fork in the Road, up goes the inevitable replacement.

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The Fork in the Road came down at 1:00 p.m. today. Our Green Mouse says that Team Gahan, having mistaken a Greek island in the Mediterr...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Even as we foresee the Champs-Ély-Jéffrey, Berlin "contends with street names of a brutal, overlooked past."

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As we know, it isn't about street names alone. The recent trials and tribulations of Confederate statuary in Louisville are well docume...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Statue removal? Yes, the Civil War was about slavery -- and I'm just fine with tracing it all the way back to the Founders. Now, let's all go read a book.

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But what of Thrasher's fork? Our lead photo is from The Baffler's elegant summary:  Weekly Bafflements: What a dogshit week. ...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Suddeath: "You can love the South without loving its biggest mistake."

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Daniel Suddeath and I jousted often during his tenure as News and Tribune reporter, and while our exchanges occasionally got testy, I vie...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

BREAKING: Team Gahan enlists Horseshoe Foundation to fund innovative chicane at the troublesome Spring & 10th intersection.

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Of course it's a chicane. After all, it fits the deaf -inition. SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: "Down with chicanery -- lo...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

From Berlin to Budapest to New Orleans: "Historically, Confederate symbols have appeared at times of racial discord."

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A concise, yet comprehensive essay about symbolism. ‘They were not patriots’: New Orleans removes monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. ...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Lenin's head finally is located, and will be displayed in Berlin.

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The story of the toppled 60-foot tall statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin that formerly stood in East Berlin where the Volkspark Friedrichshain ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Berliners came to bury Lenin, not exhume his statue. But I remember it well.

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As it looked then.  It was 25 years ago this month that I was in East Berlin, tidying the vicinity of this very decapitated statue in p...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Councilman Cappuccino submits bicentennial statue design.

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Outraged that New Albany plans on staging a bicentennial celebration that doesn’t take into account his contribution to the city’s fabled Lu...
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