{"id":599491,"date":"2026-08-20T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:10:11","slug":"william-mitchell-sculpture-removed-during-coventry-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599491\/","title":{"rendered":"William Mitchell sculpture removed during Coventry demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mitchell had a body of work that ranges from a zoo in Qatar to the Egyptian escalator at Harrods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was known for his public art in the UK, including Grade II-listed works across London, as well as significant installations in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The double-sided Aztec-style piece in Coventry was awarded listed status in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Historic England described it as &#8220;a significant and unusual instance of a 1960s public art commission of high quality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bale said removing the mural, which weighs about 30 tonnes, took six months of planning. It was cut up into four pieces and the last chunk was lifted out on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told BBC CWR it would be cleaned and stored for a &#8220;little while&#8221;, with plans for its future likely to be brought forward in the next couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitchell had a body of work that ranges from a zoo in Qatar to the Egyptian escalator at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-599491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}