A selection of recent BBC News stories featuring public art
Date uploaded: August 8, 2011
Please find below a selection of BBC News stories on public art:
The Potteries Pyramid costing £100,000 is set to be moved – 22nd July 2011
A piece of public art in Stoke-on-Trent costing around £100,000 was put in the wrong place, according to the city council. More than four years ago, the Potteries Pyramid was erected on a hill in Chatterley Valley, near Tunstall. Now the authority wants to move the sculpture onto a roundabout not far from its current location. Use the link below to read the story on BBC News.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14246686
Cultural Olympiad boat project visits Milton Keynes – 22nd July 2011
Wooden objects of personal and sentimental significance have been collected from people and communities at an event in Milton Keynes in order to build a "boat of memories".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14247320
Plan to protect public artworks in Bristol proposed – 19th July 2011
A Bristol councillor is calling for a register to be created to protect public works of art in the city after one of street artist Banksy's earliest works, in Eastville, was whitewashed by mistake recently.
