Edmonton Bows To Hindu Objections To Public Art

“Four statues of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity revered as the remover of obstacles, are to be removed in the next few days from outside Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Centre after adamant objections from Alberta Hindus… Ryan McCourt’s sculptures, which have been on display for 10 months, were placed at the centre under Edmonton’s Art and Design in Public Places Program, a corporate-municipal-non-profit partnership seeking to show large-scale sculptures produced by many artists in the region.”