Richmond: Lenin blows his top, Biennale admits assembly error
Much to the dismay of its army of objectors, Richmond’s Lenin/Miss Mao had not been decapitated and is not being run out of town.
There was something of a rumble in the jungle Wednesday morning when passers-by witnessed workmen slicing Miss Mao off Lenin’s head and then a crane and cables being hooked onto the famous former Communist leader’s giant chrome bust.
Several onlookers at the Elmbridge and Alderbridge ways intersection site paused from their daily routine, believing the City of Richmond and organizers of the Biennale temporary public art exhibition had bowed to public pressure to remove the controversial artwork.
The truth was very much to the contrary.
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