But what made it more so was the juxtaposition of the girl – hands on hips, chin raised – with Raging Bull.Īrturo Di Modica was upset. Echoing Raging Bull’s own clandestine arrival, the sculpture was sited just before International Women’s Day in a publicity stunt to promote a State Street fund consisting of companies that have a higher-than-average number of women on their boards. The story fast-forwards to 2017, when asset management company State Street Global Advisors commissioned artist Kristen Visbal to sculpt the 110-kilogram Fearless Girl statue. But after a public outcry, city administrators decided to install it close by in Bowling Green, where it has become a tourist attraction for those visiting downtown Manhattan. They called the police, who seized the sculpture. New York Stock Exchange officials were not impressed. His guerrilla art was his tribute to US resilience and spirit in the aftermath of the 1986 Wall Street crash. He had spent two years sculpting the bull in his Manhattan studio. Twenty-nine years ago, in the early hours of December 15, 1989, Arturo Di Modica loaded a three-tonne bronze bull onto a truck and deposited it on Wall Street.

(photo: Michael Fitzsimmons / Alamy Stock Photo).

Three-tonne bronze bull near New York’s Wall Street, shines a light on The upset surrounding the positioning of Kristen Visbal’sġ10-kilogram Fearless Girl Statue in front of Arturo Di Modica’s

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