A Tale of Two Statues (in Denmark and U.S.)

 Public art is one of those things that depends in different ways on public and political support.

So, in Denmark, one statue of a mermaid is being removed, while in the U.S. statues of Confederate soldiers are being restored.

The Guardian has the story about the mermaid statue (which isn't _the_ famous little mermaid, but a bigger one):

Denmark to remove ‘pornographic’ mermaid statue, reports say. Danish agency for palaces and culture requests removal of 14-tonne sculpture from Dragør Fort in Copenhagen  by Miranda Bryant

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USA Today has the story about a statue being restored in Washington D.C.

No one was sad to see this Confederate statue go. Now Trump is bringing it back. | Opinion
Trump wants us to move backward, to a time when our nation's ugly, racist past was swept under the rug. Why else would he be propping up inept Confederate generals while targeting Black history?  by Sara Pequeño

"President Trump is advocating for the restoration of a monument honoring Confederate Gen. Albert Pike.
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Pike, a Freemason and member of the anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party, was a Confederate general who served for less than two years before resigning. His troops were accused of scalping Union soldiers. There are claims that he was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War, but historians say this can’t be proven."