Wuthering Heights

Space Station, a giant sculpture gifted to the town of Pietrasanta by Cuban artist Julio Fernández Larraz, and installed in the roundabout between Via Santini and the ancient Via Aurelia Sud (one of the main entrances to the town).

The Dragon in the Room

Serpent d’océan (Ocean Serpent) by Chinese-French contemporary artist 黄永砯 (Huáng Yǒng Pīng) is a 100 m long skeletal sea serpent made of aluminum, installed on the west coast of France, at the limit where the Loire meets the Atlantic. Photo: Pierre Mathieu/Flickr.

From a High Tower

Standing at just over 21 metres, the world’s tallest sandcastle has been built in the town of Blokhus in Denmark. The structure, reinforced with glue and clay, took 4,860 tonnes of sand to make. It is open to visitors and will stand in place until winter. Photo: AFP.

巨石阵 (Stonehenge)

If Caligula made his horse, Incitatus, a consul, then there cannot be anything wrong in taking a ride on 杜甫 (Dù Fǔ)’s donkey on the banks of the 浏水 (Liú River) in 浏阳 (Liúyáng), 湖南省 (Húnán province), China. Photo: 长益 (Zhǎng Yì).

The Mask of Zorro

A sculpture Eros Bendato (Eros Bound) with a mock mask lays on the main square in Kraków, Poland. Photo: Jakub Włodek/Agencja Gazeta via Reuters.

Car Wars

Automobile mechanic and welder Sergey Kulagin prepares an exhibit of metal sculptures made from automotive parts in Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Photo: Ilya Naymushin/Sputnik.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

Venice, Italy: “Building Bridges” by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn, a sculptural installation showing six pairs of arching hands creating a bridge over a Venetian waterway in a former shipyard, before the 58th International Venice Biennale art exhibition. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images.

Body Double

The unveiling of the “Fearless Girl” statue in Paternoster Square, London, United Kingdom. Photo: Alex Lentati.

A Little Difference Makes a Big Difference

After Norway’s Storelgen stole Mac the Moose’s place as world’s tallest, a Canadian city hopes to “stick it to Oslo” by increasing their statue’s size. [Read more].

• Leyland Cecco, “An egregious offence”: Canada battles Norway for tallest moose statue, The Guardian, January 18, 2019

Battle of the moose: Canada’s Mac the Moose (left), and Norway’s Storelgen (right). Composite: Alamy.

In itinere

The “Fearless Girl” statue stands across from the New York Stock Exchange after a ceremony to unveil the statue’s new location. Photo: Getty Images.

Water skirt

А worker repairs a fountain in a park in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff.

Walking to the Sky

Strasbourg, France: A “Blood Moon” eclipse is photographed above the sculpture “Woman Walking to the Sky” by the American artist Jonathan Borofsky. Photo: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images.

Floating umbrellas

A woman with an umbrella walks under the rain past a sculpture called Umbrellas by Greek sculptor George Zongolopoulos along the waterfront in Thessaloniki, Greece. Photo: AFP/Sakis Mitrolidis.

Only One Woman

A protester is removed from a statue near the Japanese Consulate General in Busan, South Korea. The sculpture, which represents Korean labourers who were forcibly mobilised by Japan during its 1910-1945 colonial rule, has been moved to another location in the city. Photo: EPA.

“Facing her a world of silly and arrogant giants”

A woman walks past sculptures by the Chinese artist 岳敏君 (Yuè Mǐnjūn) outside an art museum in 北京 (Běijīng), China. Photo: 王钊 (Wáng Zhāo)/AFP/Getty Images.

Zero Gravity

“Zwevende maagden” sculpture composition by Elisabet Stienstra in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Photo: Koosg/Wikimedia Commons.

Things That Sometimes Happen

Last Sunday we took a day off and paid a visit to Pietrasanta, Italy, where an exhibition of giant bronze sculptures by Roberto Barni was on show all around the town. The exhibit, entitled “Le cose vogliono esistere” (Things want to exist), will be on display till February 25, 2018. All photos: Mado Flynn.

Riding the Unicorn

Sculptor Darren Jackson takes care as he puts the finishing touches to an ice sculpture of a unicorn which will make up part of the forthcoming exhibition The Ice Adventure: A Journey Through Frozen Scotland, in Edinburgh, Scotland from November 17 to December 24, 2017. Photo: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images.

Mermaid

Pietrasanta, Italy, July 30, 2015. “Il Canto delle Sirene | The Mermaids’ Song”, an outdoor exhibition of sculptures by Luigi Galligani. Photo: Mado Flynn.

Σειρῆνες (Sirene)

Pietrasanta, Italy, July 30, 2015. “Il Canto delle Sirene | The Mermaids’ Song”, an outdoor exhibition of sculptures by Luigi Galligani. Photo: Mado Flynn.