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Sen. Mark Warner wants to rein in a 218-year old law granting presidents sweeping power to send troops to suppress protests, a measure President Donald Trump has said he might ...
Lincoln’s statue stands opposite the Houses of Parliament and is a replica of one by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Not to be outdone, the Commonwealth of Virginia presented ...
After reading Michael Williams’ article on April 3 (“RVA’s monuments cannot rise again”), I offer a few suggestions that will hopefully become part of the conversation.
It has been almost 10 years since the dedication of the life-size bronze statue depicting Abraham Lincoln and his 12-year-old son, Tad, sitting on a bench during their historic visit to Richmond.
Titled 40 ACRES: Camp Barker, the 6ft-tall, 3,000lb wax figure is a work by the Richmond, Virginia-based artist Sandy Williams IV, who is also an art professor at the University of Richmond.
As parts of the United States emerge from a searing heat wave that culminated in record-breaking temperatures this past weekend, a six-foot-tall sculpture of Abraham Lincoln has gone viral online ...
A Wax Statue of Lincoln Melted Into a Meme The sculpture was part of a series meant to comment on American monument culture. Cue the jokes instead. Listen to this article · 3:15 min Learn more ...
Wax Abe Lincoln, it turns out, was no match for Washington’s punishing heat wave. The six-foot-tall statue of America’s 16th president, by Richmond artist Sandy Williams IV, was installed in ...
As of Monday, June 24, 2024, this wax Abraham Lincoln statue had melted so much, it was headless. Photo by Omega Ilijevich. If you spent any time outdoors this weekend, you might have felt like you ...
A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln outside a Northwest D.C. elementary school was melted over the weekend as part of Art All Night. The sculpture is the work of Richmond-based artist Sandy ...
The statue depicts Lincoln with his arm draped around 12-year-old Tad, resting on a bench during their visit to Richmond on April 4 and 5, 1865, as they toured the burned and Union-occupied former ...
This isn’t the first box to be discovered beneath a Confederate monument in Richmond. In December, two time capsules were found buried under the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue.