Just before Christmas in 1989, Arturo di Modica, a Sicilian artist living in New York City, recruited a few friends, loaded his sculpture, “Charging Bull,” a 7,000-pound, 16-foot-long bronze bull, onto a flatbed truck. They transported it from his studio to Wall Street and deposited it, without permission, in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The sculpture was swiftly removed by the city the next day, but due to public outcry it was reinstalled at a location nearby, where it has since become a neighborhood landmark (and judging by its prominence on Flickr, a popular tourist attraction).
