statues
Kim Kardashian has been accused of purchasing an ancient Roman statue that was illegally exported from Italy. However, the reality TV star insists she has no knowledge of the transaction. According to documents filed in California court last Friday, the piece in question is a limestone sculpture that dates back to the 1st or 2nd century AD. CNN reports federal authorities seized […]
A 2020 Beats by Dre commercial featuring Flo Milli is receiving renewed attention this week. The ad was first unveiled as part of a headphones campaign launched by the Apple-owned Beats back in November. The campaign, also featuring ads centered on Cordae and Naomi Osaka, was put together in promotion of the new Beats Flex headphones, […]
In today’s monolith round-up, a trio of somewhat mysterious new structures have been spotted over the past few days on Britain‘s Isle of Wight, San Luis Obispo, California, and near the Joshua Tree National Park, representing the latest development(s) in a stunt that hopefully has some sort of payoff at some point. While it would be nice […]
A petition posted this past weekend pushing to get a Confederate statue replaced with a Chadwick Boseman memorial has generated more than 15,000 signatures. The proposed statue swap would occur in Anderson, South Carolina, the hometown of Boseman. The star of Black Panther, Marshall, and many other films passed away on Friday due to colon cancer. He was […]
As if having a reality show star as the president wasn’t wild enough, things could get even crazier as Donald Trump may be plotting on adding his face to one of America’s most famous monuments. The New York Times reported on Saturday that Trump and the White House reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year […]
Christopher Columbus statues have been removed from Grant Park and Arrigo Park in Chicago. In a statement to CBS Chicago early Friday, a rep from Mayor Lori Lightfoot‘s office said the statues were “temporarily removed” following “consultation with various stakeholders,” adding that they will remain down until further notice. “It comes in response to demonstrations […]
Donald Trump took to his usual bully pulpit of Twitter on Tuesday, threatening anyone who tries vandalizes or destroys a monument or statue with up to 10 years in prison. People were quick to point out the hypocrisy in Trump placing more of an importance on the well-being of a statue than American lives. The threat came as a direct response […]
According to a report from The New York Times, the statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt standing at the entrance of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History will be taken down. As you may have guessed if you’ve noticed the uptick in statues being removed by protestors across the U.S., this decision is related to the widespread […]
A statue of Christopher Columbus at Byrd Park, which is located in Richmond, Virginia and was dedicated back in 1927, was torn down and thrown into Landing at Fountain Lake. Images of the incident, which went down on Tuesday night, circulated on social media with many applauding the statue’s removal. Protesters used ropes to tear down the statue, ABC 8 […]
An old tribute statue of 2Pac became a topic of intense discourse this week thanks to an inaccurately captioned tweet. The statue, which sadly looks almost nothing like the late music icon, was subsequently mocked in tweeted responses. While the caption stated that this was a “new” statue located in Dallas, the tribute piece actually […]
