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But city officials say the sculpture was always intended to be temporary.
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Earlier in the month a blue, half-sized gorilla named Werbert was taken from St Werburgh's City Farm and a sculpture in Clifton, created by television personality Timmy Mallett, was set on fire.
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Their efforts are being marked with a sculpture at the city's bus station, with work expected to start in August.
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Viewer Jean Hobbs suggested turning a Mini Clubman car, which has been uncovered 30 years after being left in a tunnel under the Longbridge factory where it was built, into a sculpture to show off the city's car-making history.
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Housed within an Art Deco municipal swimming pool, 20 minutes by train from the city centre, it showcases fine arts, applied arts and sculpture in a delightfully watery environment.
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He worked with Ben Davis, producer Amy Critchett and a team of employees, volunteers and city departments to blow up those those tiny pixels into a huge computerized light sculpture.
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And in one of the neatest art installations we've seen this week, Leo Villareal announced plans to install a 30-foot-tall "Buckyball" sculpture that's made up of 180 glowing LED tubes in New York City's Madison Square Park later this year.
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This was the theory behind Canadian artist Peter von Tiesenhausen's decision to bury a sculpture almost four metres underground, beneath a sewer at the main crossroads in the city of Sarnia, Ontario.
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One of the artists, Sarah Nadin, from Dashyline studios, said the sculpture was due to be unveiled on 6 September to mark the 71st anniversary of the city's campaign to rebuild Lidice.
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