A top court in Germany has denied an attempt to remove an ancient antisemitic sculpture showing a Jew looking up a pig's rear end. The 13th-century work - on a church in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt state - also shows two people suckling from the sow's teats. The figures in the…
A sculpture made of 1 million EUR 1 cent coins worth EUR 100,000 and weighing up to four tonnes has been set up in the heart of the Austrian capital Vienna. The purported aim is to raise awareness about solidarity. Artist Julia Bugram glued the coins together as a pair…
A German art gallery has been fined nearly USD 20,000 for damaging this bright pink balloon sculpture made by famous American artist Jeff Koons. The Duesseldorf Regional Court decided on Monday (13th December) that the art gallery has to pay EUR 17,000 (GBP 14,500; USD 19,200) towards repairing the 'Balloon…
A controversial wooden sculpture of a big-breasted water nymph has come to the attention of German politicians who claim it might cause some men at the swimming pool where it is located to get overexcited, and who have asked for it to be removed. In recent years many Germans who…
A 4,200-year-old goddess statue from the Early Bronze Age has been found in an archaeological site in central Turkey where digs have been carried out for over 70 years. Prof. Dr. Fikri Kulakoglu said that the goddess statue they unearthed at the Kultepe archaeological site in the central Turkish province…
