In 1970 a group of unknown individuals —possibly the Weather Underground — detonated plastic explosives underneath a cast of Rodin's famed sculpture "The Thinker" outside the Cleveland Museum of Art.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] · 7 months ago

In 1970 a group of unknown individuals —possibly the Weather Underground — detonated plastic explosives underneath a cast of Rodin's famed sculpture "The Thinker" outside the Cleveland Museum of Art.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] · 7 months ago

An article about it

The Death and Life of a Statue: How The Thinker Was Reborn in Cleveland - Cleveland Public Library

GayTuckerCarlson [none/use name] · 7 months ago

Why?

lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml · edit-2 7 months ago

Adventurism because ~~west Germans~~ were desperate af

Edit : I confused Weather Underground with another group

Dolores [love/loves] · 7 months ago

i thought the weather underground were yankees, and this was in cleveland

lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml · 7 months ago

Yes I did confuse them with another

Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them] · 7 months ago

Wish someon would detonated thermite on the Wall Street bull.

InevitableSwing [none/use name] · edit-2 7 months ago

They chose to reinstall the sculpture without resorting it. It is quite haunting to see.

https://bsky.app/profile/carteredman.bsky.social/post/3krjlgq7wgx2v

Photos at the link.

Dolores [love/loves] · 7 months ago

fucking destroyed that porcelain throne. powerful bowels