Best of Rob:
June 15 - 'Sky mirror' later in the evening, installation by Anish Kapoor (2013), with the grand canal in the background, on the grounds of Versailles
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Young archers on swan-back harass this dragon that was just minding its own business, the 'Dragon fountain' (1679 - 1681) in the gardens at Versailles
Best of Rob:
June 15 - The Apollo fountain (1671), the 'gardens' of Versailles
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Jun 15 - Anthropomorphic frog (1667) in the Latona fountain in the 'gardens' at Versailles,
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Old monuments to Lt. Col. Sir Alexander Gordon and to the King's German Legion (known as 'the Hanoverian monument') on the battlefield at Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Newly unveiled monument to the (British) defenders of Hougoumont farm in the battle of Waterloo, at Hougoumont farm, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - The French 'L'Aigle blesse' (wounded eagle) monument, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Wreaths at the Menin gate, the day after the commemoration of the Battle of Bellewaarde, Ieper (Ypres), Flanders, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Cross of Sacrifice built over a German pillbox (exposed in the square at the front), Tyne cot British and Commonwealth war cemetery, Flanders
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Monument near Zonnebeke (on the road from Ypres to Passchendaele), Ypres salient ('Flanders fields'), Belgium (If you don't discern it right away, it's a head with a face looking up at the sky.)
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Canadian war memorial atop Hill 62 to the Battle of Mount Sorrel, at Sanctuary Wood and Canadalaan, near Ieper (Ypres), Flanders
Best of Rob:
June 15 - 'We are Anonymunny', public art on a huge plant pot (bamboo?) in Kortrijk (Courtrai)
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Monument at the Groeningheveld, the once-marshy site of 'the Battle of the Golden spurs' (1302), Kortrijk (Courtrai), Flanders
Best of Rob:
June 15 - One panel of many on the inside of the Menin gate memorial with some of the 54,000 or so names (here incl. that of my great uncle Jim) of soldiers who died in the Ypres salient but were never found or buried in marked graves
Best of Rob:
June 15 - The famous Menin gate war memorial, Ieper (Ypres), Flanders, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Napoleon, in a toga, steers with the 'rudder of France', part of 1 of 10 bas-reliefs commemorating the achievements of his reign, this being 'administrative centralization', at Napoleon's tomb, Royal chapel, Hotel des Invalides, Paris
Best of Rob:
Sept 14 - Mural in Baltimore
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Sept 14 - In Baltimore
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Sept 14 - Statue of local icon Ray Lewis by the M&T Bank football stadium, Baltimore
Best of Rob:
Aug 14 - Part of an art installation, off rue Ste. Catherine, Montreal
Best of Rob:
Aug 14 - 2-headed vs. 2-faced, street art in Montreal
Best of Rob:
Aug 14 - 'Exploit de Place d'Armes', Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve (founder of Montreal) nonchalantly shoots an Iroquois warrior in this plaque (1895) on the base of his statue, Place d'Armes, Montreal
Best of Rob:
Aug 14 - 'Hommage aux fondateurs de la ville de Montréal', 'Homage to the founders of the city of Montréal' (Pierre Gaboriau and Pierre Osterrath, 1969) in the Berri-UQAM metro station, Montréal
Best of Rob:
Mar 14 - Thomas Paine memorial at the site of his death (in 1809), Greenwich village, NYC
Best of Rob:
Mar 14 - Painstaking graffiti on a poster ad in Manhattan
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - "Nelson Mandela, 11.02.1990 Liberation after 29 yr.s of prison", mural in Djibouti city
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Mural at a somali border-post (the "Soomaali-laand' / Djibouti border)
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - The base of the Civil war memorial beneath an MiG-17 fighter jet, Hargeisa, Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - Part of the Civil war monument and a goat, Freedom square, Hargeisa, Somaliland
Best of Rob:
Jan 14 - A civil war memorial with an MiG-17 bomber jet, Freedom square, Hergeisa, capital of Somaliland
