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The poet, who died in 1985, was honoured with a posthumous statue at Hull Paragon Interchange railway station in 2010 Philip Larkin has been included on a secret list of major statues of concern over comments he made in private letters published years after his death. The poet, who died in 1985, was honoured with a posthumous statue at Hull Paragon Interchange railway station in 2010 - having moved to the city in 1955 where he worked as a librarian and penned works that earned him an offer of poet laureate. But Hull City Council has cited it in a review prompted in the wake of Black Lives Matter movement. ....
Sir Laurie Magnus (pictured) is promoting a policy of retaining contested statues alongside counter-memorials The head of Historic England has suggested that statues with links to slavery should be allowed to stay in place if counter-memorials are installed alongside them. Sir Laurie Magnus, who has been chairman since 2013, appeared during an online Policy Exchange conference to promote a policy of retaining contested statues. But he suggested that authorities reflect on the events of last year that saw the likeness of 18th-century slave trader Edward Colston toppled in Bristol. It was temporarily, and unofficially, replaced by a statue of Black Lives Matter demonstrator Jen Reid - who had been photographed atop the newly empty plinth with her fist raised after Colston first fell. ....
A Mystery Artist Installed a Much-Discussed Statue of an Enslaved 19th-Century Explorer in Portland. He Tells Us Why and How He Did It The unauthorized monument memorializes York, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, for being the first Black man to cross the continent to the Pacific. York (2010/2021). Photo courtesy of the artist. Last October, after a summer marked by a steady stream of protests in Portland, Oregon, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, someone toppled a statue in Mount Tabor Park of Harvey Scott, a prominent 19th-century conservative and newspaper editor who opposed giving women the right to vote. ....
Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/t-magazine/female-monuments-women.html Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women? There’s still very little thought paid to how women are represented as bodies and as selves. Asked to paint a female figure she’d commemorate with a statue, the Los Angeles-based artist February James, 43, chose Augusta Savage (1892-1962), an American sculptor during the Harlem Renaissance. Savage is “making a statue of Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris,” James said, noting that Savage’s 1939 sculpture for the World’s Fair was destroyed.Credit.February James ....
Jenrick plans laws to protect statues and monuments from ‘baying mob’ Statues will be given new protections to stop them from being taken down, the government has announced Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has said that planning permission will be required before any statue or historic monument is removed, in a bid to stop Britain’s past from being ‘censored’. Advertisement It follows the toppling of a statue to 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol last year. Writing in the Telegraph, Jenrick said: ‘What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.’ ....