Public monuments are the story we tell about ourselves. They shouldn’t aggrandize a living leader.

In a glass case on the ground floor of the Kansas Statehouse is a 3-foot plaster model of Ceres, the Roman goddess of ...
RTÉ Ireland

Why is the Child of Prague statue associated with Irish weddings and weather?

The general belief was that you should leave the statue outside under a bush the night before the wedding to ensure good ...
WRAL

A Revealing Statue of Washington Arrives, but Not Its Champion

In a photo provided by Fabio Zonta, Naked George — though that is not its official name — is a 200-year-old plaster statue of the first president in the buff. The statue arrived safely in New York, ...
Lawrence Journal-World

KU’s oldest museum, filled with casts of classical sculptures and artifacts, is a ‘hidden gem’

A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo statue at the Wilcox Classical Museum at the University of Kansas. The museum, founded in 1888, is not well-known by many at KU's campus, but curator Philip Stinson ...
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5.5 tons solid gold buddha statue. Full story

In 1955, workers in Bangkok accidentally dropped a large plaster statue of the Buddha while moving it, causing some of the plaster to crack and reveal gold underneath. Annual governors' gathering with ...