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A controversial statue carved by the sculptor Eric Gill has been restored and has been unveiled outside the BBC's London headquarters.

He said his brother had been a gifted painter and sculptor as a boy growing up in Salem, Ore.

Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s elegantly minimalist set, influenced by Noh theater, offers but a hint of a house’s framework.

The monument, which shows Pizarro on horseback with his sword drawn, was created by the American sculptor Charles Rumsey and offered by his widow to commemorate the city's fourth centenary in 1935.

Joyce saw all kinds of artists come and go over the years; composers, sculptors, painters, performance artists, poets and art professors.