Truth is Beauty

{{Short description|2013 sculpture by Marco Cochrane}}

{{For|the Keats poem|Ode on a Grecian Urn}}

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| title = Truth is Beauty

| alt = statue in San Leandro

| artist = Marco Cochrane

| year = {{start date|2013}}

| type = Sculpture

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| city = San Leandro

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Truth is Beauty, is a {{convert|55|ft|m|adj=on}} sculpture by Marco Cochrane. The sculpture is lit from the inside by more than 3,000 LED lights.{{cite news |last=Frock |first=Christian L |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/nov/11/burning-man-sculpture-woman-disquiet-bay-area |title= Burning Man sculpture on $200m tech campus causes disquiet in Bay Area |work=The Guardian |date=2015-11-11 |accessdate=2017-12-29 }} It is part of a series of three large-scale steel sculptures of nude women by Cochrane, Bliss Dance (2010), Truth is Beauty (2013) and R-Evolution (2015). It was first exhibited at the 2013 Burning Man,{{cite web |url=https://journal.burningman.org/2015/06/burning-man-arts/brc-art/as-bliss-dances-into-the-sunset-truth-is-beauty-gets-a-new-home/ |title=As Bliss Dances into the Sunset, Truth is Beauty Gets a New Home |date=11 June 2015 |publisher=Burning Man |accessdate=2017-12-29 }} then the Las Vegas Strip,{{cite news|last1=Yancey-Bragg|first1=N'dea|title=Here's why a 45-foot tall nude sculpture may be coming to the National Mall|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/29/heres-why-45-ft-tall-nude-sculpture-coming-national-mall/718238001/|accessdate=29 December 2017|publisher=USA Today|date=September 29, 2017}} and is now at permanent display at the San Leandro Tech Campus in California.