More Bull stories

The Blog likes recurring themes. So following on from stories in previous blogs on how in Milan people stamp on the Bull's testicles in that great Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and then it turns out that same bull is the mascot of local rivals Turin, here is New York's very own bull.

In December 1989 the sculptor Arturo Di Modica, possibly an Italian from Turin?, got his friends to help him deposit his latest creation, the bull in question, in front of the Stock Exchange, all 7000 lb of it. They had 7 minutes between police patrols to get the deed done but managed it in 5.

Arturo started crafting the bull in response to the 1987 stock exchange crash. The bull signified strength, power and hope.

The police removed the bull for obstructing the traffic and not having a permit. There was a local outcry and so the bull was given a new home in lower Manhattan as seen above