The Historian · Eleanor · New York
The Charging Bull and 'Fearless Girl' site
I bring people here less for the bull than for what it teaches about public memory. Arturo Di Modica installed 'Charging Bull' illegally overnight in 1989 as guerrilla art after the 1987 crash; the city kept it after the public embraced it. 'Fearless Girl' was placed facing it in 2017, recontextualized it, then was moved near the NYSE. Monuments are arguments, and these two argued in public.
The bull at Bowling Green — and a lesson in how public memory and protest art actually work.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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