Harambe (statue)
{{short description|Sculpture of Harambe, a gorilla}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=October 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox sculpture
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| alt = Sweet Prince Harambe
| caption = Bronze Harambe on Wall Street
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| title = Harambe
| subject = Harambe
| artist = Unrevealed
| year = 2021
| medium = Bronze
| height_metric = 2.1336
| height_imperial =
| width_metric = 0.741
| width_imperial =
| length_metric = 0.420
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| imperial_unit = ft
| city = New York City, New York
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The Harambe statue is a seven-foot-tall, bronze sculpture of the deceased western lowland gorilla Harambe designed by a civic group called Sapien.Network. It first appeared in public on Monday October 18, 2021, on Wall Street, New York City, New York, facing the Charging Bull statue. Beneath Charging Bull were 10,000 bananas (later donated to charity).{{cite news |publisher=CTV News |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/7-foot-tall-harambe-statue-stares-down-wall-streets-charging-bull-which-is-now-covered-in-bananas/3330853/ |title=Harambe Statue appears in front of Wall Street's charging Bull |date=October 18, 2021}}
On October 26, 2021, it was briefly placed in front of the Facebook headquarters in California.{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/harambe-statue-facebook-wall-street/index.html |title=Why a 7-foot tall Harambe statue popped up outside Facebook headquarters |date=27 October 2021 |last=Hills |first=Megan |publisher=CNN |accessdate=14 May 2023 |archive-date=14 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514155632/https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/harambe-statue-facebook-wall-street/index.html |url-status=live }}
Sculpture and artist
The bronze sculpture was apparently cast in five pieces by using a "lost wax technique", and soldered together by an unrevealed artist commissioned by Ankit Bhatia and Robert Giometti of Sapien.Network group.{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/7-foot-tall-harambe-statue-stares-down-wall-streets-charging-bull-which-is-now-covered-in-bananas/3330853/ |title=7-Foot-Tall Harambe Statue Stares Down Wall Street's Charging Bull, Which Is Now Covered in Bananas |first=Gabriella |last=Lozano |language=en |website=NBC New York |date=October 18, 2021 |access-date=18 October 2021 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018171255/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/7-foot-tall-harambe-statue-stares-down-wall-streets-charging-bull-which-is-now-covered-in-bananas/3330853/ |url-status=live }}
Reaction
Multiple news agencies reported on the Harambe statue.{{cite web |url=https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/seven-foot-harambe-statue-appears-on-wall-street |title=Seven-foot Harambe statue appears on Wall Street |last=Bethel |first=B.J. |date=19 October 2021 |website=WCPO |access-date=27 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027231356/https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/seven-foot-harambe-statue-appears-on-wall-street |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/19/harambe-statue-stares-down-wall-streets-charging-bill-with-bananas-15449434/ |title=Harambe gorilla statue stares down Wall Street Charging Bull covered in bananas |first=Isabel |last=Keane |date=19 October 2021 |work=Metro}} News of the statue reached beyond North America and NBC New York's initial covering of the statue.{{cite news |last=Best |first=Paul |date=18 October 2021 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/harambe-statue-wall-street |title=Harambe statue pops up on Wall Street opposite the Charging Bull sculpture |work=Fox News |access-date=10 November 2024 |archive-date=25 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725143223/https://www.foxnews.com/us/harambe-statue-wall-street |url-status=live }} The French newspaper Libération covered the incident.{{cite news |date=19 October 2021 |url=https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/a-new-york-le-gorille-harambe-et-ses-10-000-bananes-face-au-taureau-agressif-de-wall-street-20211019_UAX4OTRI4BGX3PGIE472CRB2KE/ |title=A New York, le gorille Harambe et ses 10 000 bananes face au taureau de Wall Street |work=Libération |language=fr }}
See also
- Gorilla, 1961 sculpture in London