In which town has the statue 'Verity' by Damien Hirst been installed?
"Verity (statue) Verity is a stainless steel and bronze statue created by Damien Hirst. The tall sculpture stands on the pier at the entrance to the harbour in Ilfracombe, Devon, looking out over the Bristol Channel towards South Wales. It has been loaned to the town for 20 years. The name of the piece refers to ""truth"" and Hirst describes his work as a ""modern allegory of truth and justice"". The statue depicts a pregnant woman holding aloft a sword while carrying the scales of justice and standing on a pile of law books. Half of the sculpture shows the"
"British victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. The map features all the counties of Great Britain, as well as the boroughs of London and British Islands and protectorates. The map is carved from grey flagstone from Caithness and sandstone from Moray, Scotland. In January 2015 Verity visited Duke University for a 10 day residency during which he recreated the ""Head of a virtue"" - a 1245 sculpture from Notre-Dame Cathedral that is now in the collection of the Nasher Museum of Art. Other works include: Simon Verity Simon Verity (born 1945) is a British"
"and is located in Nashville, Georgia. However, it was the second to be installed, and about the 25th to be formally dedicated. The first completed installation was at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. The statue in Spencer, Indiana, the sculptor's hometown, was not dedicated until May 29, 1927. The statue also sparked an interior decorating fad in the 1920s. The design was so popular that Viquesney manufactured replica pot metal statuettes by the thousands. Also available were ""Doughboy"" lamps, which were made from the 12"" statuettes (the ""Doughboy"" held a light bulb and lampshade in his raised hand), candlesticks,"
"the sculpture would endure the strong winds common in the area. Norm and Eunabel McKie of Rapid City, South Dakota announced their gift of ""Dignity"" to the State of South Dakota in 2014, in honor of the 125th anniversary of South Dakota statehood. The statue was erected in September 2016 at a site near Interstate 90, where it overlooks the river. It is situated in the Chamberlain Interstate Welcome Center located at mile post 264 and is accessible by both directions of travel. The statue measures 50 feet (15.24m) high, 16 (4.88m) feet deep and 32 feet (9.75m) wide. The"
"bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for ""The Golden Calf"", an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. In several instances since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised. In one instance, after his sculpture ""Hymn"" was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement. Hirst was born as Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. He never met his father; his"
"Many of Otterness's public works can be found in New York City. ""The Real World"", located in Battery Park City was commissioned in 1986 and installed in 1992; this sculpture ensemble is meant to represent the world outside the playground, ""a broad social allegory on art and life, where the games of power and control are played out in miniature by Otterness's adorable and cunning characters…an imaginative park with things to touch and stories to invent."" Otterness is perhaps best known to New Yorkers for his 2000 ""Life Underground"" installation, which is located in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue"
"La Grande Vitesse La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Popularly referred to as simply ""the Calder"", since its installation in 1969 it has come to be a symbol of Grand Rapids, and an abstraction of it is included in the city's official logo. The sculpture was the first public art work funded by the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Fabricated in Tours, France and assembled on"
"Newport Street Gallery The Newport Street Gallery is an art gallery in London, England which displays works selected from the personal art collection of Damien Hirst. It runs the length of Newport Street in Vauxhall. Hirst announced plans for the gallery in March 2012, and it opened in October 2015. It includes a shop, a restaurant, and offices for Hirst's company. The building is a former theatre carpentry and scenery production workshop, redesigned by Caruso St John. The design was praised for its ""virtuosity"", and in October 2016 it won the RIBA Stirling Prize. The collection includes five pieces by"
"Francis Bacon. Newport Street Gallery The Newport Street Gallery is an art gallery in London, England which displays works selected from the personal art collection of Damien Hirst. It runs the length of Newport Street in Vauxhall. Hirst announced plans for the gallery in March 2012, and it opened in October 2015. It includes a shop, a restaurant, and offices for Hirst's company. The building is a former theatre carpentry and scenery production workshop, redesigned by Caruso St John. The design was praised for its ""virtuosity"", and in October 2016 it won the RIBA Stirling Prize. The collection includes five"
"the city, but they refused. As a result, the stamp was placed in storage in a facility in Whiting, Indiana. Over the next several years, BP, the artists, and the city consulted to find a new site for the sculpture. Several sites were proposed, including the Cleveland Museum of Art. The artists, who wanted the sculpture to remain near Public Square, finally chose Willard Park. In 1991, BP donated the sculpture to the city of Cleveland. The stamp was modified to sit on its side, and it was dedicated in its new location on November 15, 1991. At the dedication,"
"known works is a 13-foot bronze likeness of Alex Haley, which was installed in the Haley Heritage Square Park in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1998. Her statue of George Washington Carver is the focal point of the George Washington Carver Garden at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. Her 12-foot bronze monument to Sojourner Truth is displayed in Memorial Park Battle Creek, Michigan. Her bust of Frederick Douglass is on display at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; it was featured in a scene in the movie ""Akeelah and the Bee"". She is part of the permanent collection at the Schomburg"
"Peace and Harvest Peace"" and ""Harvest are two tall limestone statues in downtown Peoria, Illinois, United States. The male and female figures represent peace and harvest respectively. The statues were sculpted by Chicagoan Mary Andersen Clark (born in 1910 and formerly of Peoria) as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The statues, created in 1938 and 1939, were dedicated on September 3, 1939 in front of the Peoria Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, just north of the current Forest Park Nature Center, and stood at the site"
"Another actor Terry Thomas visited the town frequently to stay with his sister, and in the same period Joan and Jackie Collins were schooled here and boarded in the town. In the last two decades the town has been home to many artists including locally Damien Hirst, and George Shaw a runner up for the Turner Prize. There is an annual art festival when local artists open their homes for visitors to see their work and 7 to 10 permanent art galleries. the town's first lifeboat was bought in 1828 but a permanent service was not available until the Royal"
"and spray from the sea. Measuring 25cm (10 inches) higher than the ""Angel of the North"", ""Verity"" became the tallest statue in the UK when it was put into place, but is now surpassed by ""The Kelpies"", near Falkirk, Scotland, at . Members of North Devon Council referred to the controversial nature of the statue as a potential boost to tourism. Local reaction was very mixed, with those critical of the work calling it ""ugly"" and stating that ""it isn't suitable for a Victorian seaside town"". Before they allowed planning permission the council received 100 letters from people who objected"
"Iron:Man Iron:Man is a statue by Antony Gormley, in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. The statue is tall, including the feet which are buried beneath the pavement, and weighs . The statue leans 7.5° backwards and 5° to its left. It is said by the sculptor to represent the traditional skills of Birmingham and the Black Country practised during the Industrial Revolution. Cast at Bradley and Fosters Castings (now Firth Rixson Castings) in Willenhall, it was erected in 1993 and was a gift to the City from the Trustee Savings Bank, being erected outside the former Head Post Office, which was"
"Hanover Square, the statue was placed in a warehouse for 9 years. In the fall of 2013, it was restored to public view in its current location in Thomas Paine Park near the Supreme Court building. . A duplicate of the New York statue was also donated by John Watts de Peyster to Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it is currently placed on Buchanan Avenue. Abraham de Peyster Abraham de Peyster (July 8, 1657 – August 3, 1728) was the 20th Mayor of New York City from 1691 to 1694, and served as Governor of New York,"
"Calder Plaza. La Grande Vitesse La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Popularly referred to as simply ""the Calder"", since its installation in 1969 it has come to be a symbol of Grand Rapids, and an abstraction of it is included in the city's official logo. The sculpture was the first public art work funded by the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Fabricated in Tours, France and"
"fabricated in Connecticut. In June 1969, Calder attended the dedication of his monumental stabile ""La Grande Vitesse"" in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This sculpture is notable for being the first civic sculpture in the United States to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Calder created a sculpture called ""Bent Propeller"", which in 1971 was installed at the entrance of the World Trade Center's North Tower in New York City. When Battery Park City opened, the sculpture was moved to Vesey and Church Streets. The sculpture stood in front of 7 World Trade Center until it was destroyed on"
"in New York but proved too controversial for the city. It was instead installed in Orton Park in Madison, Wisconsin from 1986 to 1991. The Madison installation was funded by the New Harvest Foundation. It was finally moved to New York in 1992. After it was moved to New York, one of the Stonewall veterans, Marsha P. Johnson, commented, ""How many people have died for these two little statues to be put in the park to recognize gay people? How many years does it take for people to realize we're all brothers and sisters in the human race? We're all"
"in Laurel's home town of Ulverston April 2009. His latest commission is a statue of Benny Hill for the comedian's hometown of Southampton. Graham Ibbeson Graham Ibbeson is an artist and sculptor resident of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby. One his most famous pieces is the statue of comedian Eric Morecambe, which stands in the performer’s seaside hometown of Morecambe, Lancashire and which was unveiled by the Queen. His bronze statue of Cary Grant was unveiled in"
"Cultural Foundation.) In 1982 the Council also donated a miniature version of the statue to Yokohama Station. Originally the statue was placed at the south entrance, but in December, 2010 it was moved to free passage. In 2009, a replica of the statue in Yamashita Park was erected in Yokohama's sister city of San Diego, California near the beach, and was unveiled on June 27. The following 6 statues were erected based on the aforementioned established theory.。 On September 4, 2012 on NHK Radio 2's show ""Basic English 3"", guest Dario Toda said that a statue is currently being sculpted"
"(10 m) replica has its temporary location in the Dutch city of Assen. The statue bears characteristic features that represent the culture and landscape of the region, like a can of beans instead of the original torch. The replica, by sculptor Natasja Bennink, is on display for the duration of an exhibition on American Realism in the Drents Museum until 27 May 2018. A smaller replica is in the Norwegian village of Visnes, where the copper used in the original statue was mined. A replica is also on the facade of a pub in Bleik, county of Nordland There is"
"a statue on Interstate 45. The city had its beginning about 1836, when Pleasant and Ephraim Gray opened a trading post on the site. Ephraim Gray became first postmaster in 1837, naming it after his hometown, Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville became the home of Sam Houston, who served as President of the Republic of Texas, Governor of the State of Texas, Governor of Tennessee, U.S. Senator, and Tennessee congressman. Houston led the Texas Army in the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive victory of the Texas Revolution. He has been noted for his life among the Cherokees of Tennessee, and –"
"Film Festivals, including the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Asian Film Awards. In June 2000, he became the first living Asian to have been modeled in wax at London's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Another statue was installed in New York in 2009, Hong Kong in 2011, Bangkok in 2011, Washington, DC in 2012, and Delhi, in 2017. In 2003, he was conferred with the Honorary Citizenship of the French town of Deauville. The Government of India awarded him with the Padma Shri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015. The then-President of Afghanistan"
"Golden (sculpture) Golden is a modern art sculpture installed in the Chatterley Valley, on the outskirts of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent in May 2015. The £180,000 artwork is installed on the site of the former Goldendale Ironworks and was designed by the award-winning public art sculptor Wolfgang Buttress, who designed the ""Rise"" sculpture in Belfast. It is one of the tallest public art sculptures in Britain. The site was previously occupied by the Potteries Pyramid, which has been erroneously placed there since 2007. The sculpture was privately funded using £180,000 of Section 106 monies set aside to provide new public art or"
"be seen in Ohio and around the world. Among the locations of his statues are the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, Battelle Riverfront Park (Columbus, Ohio), Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Ohio), the Ohio Governor’s mansion, the Arthur James Hospital and Research Institute, and the Indianapolis Jewish Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. ""Freedom"" (1985) and ""Celebration of Life"" (2004) are installed in Columbus. His most recent sculpture, ""Zahor"" (meaning ""Remembrance"" in Hebrew) was commissioned for Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio, where he is a member. The 9-foot-tall bronze sculpture shows German soldiers herding victims into a concentration camp gas chamber while above"
"Minstead Minstead is a small village and civil parish in the New Forest, Hampshire, about north of Lyndhurst. There is a shop and a pub, the ""Trusty Servant"". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's grave is under a large tree at the back of the 13th century All Saints' church. Minstead is a small village and civil parish in the New Forest. The majority of the parish area is a complex of woodland, heathland, acid grassland, scrub and valley bog, supporting a great richness and diversity of wildlife. One mile north of the village at Lower Canterton lies the Rufus Stone, said"
"by three caissons, totaling 135 tons, sunk in bedrock to a depth of 23 to 25 feet., It was cast at Modern Art Foundry, Astoria Queens, NY. The sculptor, Robert Berks, known for his portrait busts and statues (John F. Kennedy at the Kennedy Center; Mary McLeod Bethune in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.), based the work on a bust of Einstein he sculpted from life in 1953 at Einstein's Princeton home. Landscape architect James A. Van Sweden designed the monument landscaping. Einstein was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 1922, the year after he won"
"Revolution,"" was dedicated in the Hall in 2014, making him the only living artist to have two works in the Hall. In 2010, Benjamin Victor completed the ""Taft Monument to Oilworkers"", which is currently the largest bronze sculpture in California. Benjamin Matthew Victor was born in 1979 in Taft, California. He grew up in Bakersfield. After completing high school, he lived in for a time in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, studying art and sculpture. Victor’s first work to receive attention was a life-size statue of the biblical character Samson, sculpted when the"
"is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1908, the city of Worcester, Massachusetts erected a statue in front of the former Worcester Court House, located on Court Hill. The statue was originally located on the front middle of the Courthouse area, it was later relocated to the front side. Camp Devens near Ayer, Massachusetts was established in 1917 on about 5000 acres of land leased then later purchased from 112 owners who sold 230 parcels of land in the towns of Ayer, Harvard, Lancaster and Shirley, to the United States of America. Some was fine farmland along"
"and founder member of the Stuckism art movement, attended Harvey Grammar School and Folkestone School of Art and still maintains a base here. Actress June Brown still has two homes in the town. Dr David Raymond, who spent 45 years at the forefront of the campaign to find a medical cure for stupidity, hails from Folkestone and still resides in the town. Professional wrestler Big B Mac was born and educated in Folkestone before moving to the United States to embark on his wrestling career. Ross Godfrey and Paul Godfrey, brothers from Folkestone, are main members of the UK music"
"of Quincy. Civil War Memorial (Webster, Massachusetts) A Civil War Memorial stands in downtown Webster, Massachusetts in front of the town hall as one part of a series of war monuments called Honor Court. This memorial was dedicated in 1907 and consists of a central tower with a bronze statue of a soldier on top. Four other bronze statues of soldiers stand at each of the four corners: an infantryman, artilleryman, cavalryman, and sailor. Each bronze soldier statue was created in 125% scale from real life. On October 11, 1906 the contract for this memorial was awarded to J.W. White"
"house in which he was born. The original manuscripts of many of his novels, as well as printers' proofs, first editions, and illustrations from the collection of Dickens's friend John Forster are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour; nonetheless, a life-size bronze statue of Dickens entitled ""Dickens and Little Nell"", cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Another life-size statue of Dickens is located at Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia. In 2014, a life-size statue was unveiled"