SFGate

Take a bow / Sculptors Oldenburg and van Bruggen talk about their 'Cupid's Span,' which has dropped anchor on the waterfront

With "Cupid's Span," the monumental new outdoor sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, San Francisco may have begun to reverse its embarrassing record on choices of art in public places.
San Diego Union-Tribune

Encinitas agrees to accept spinning, shark-riding cupid sculpture on a temporary basis

Encinitas will temporarily display a fiberglass statue of a cupid riding a hammerhead shark, a piece that a few critics say endorses Christianity and is disrespectful to marine animals. The City ...
NBC 7 San Diego

Encinitas shark-riding cupid sculpture approved despite criticism

A new sculpture in Encinitas has caused an uproar among city leaders and community members. The Encinitas City Council voted this week to allow a shark statue named "Neptune Jr." to be placed atop a ...
insider.si.edu

(Cupid Fountain), (sculpture)

Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1994. A winged Cupid sitting on a clam shell. He holds a bow in his upraised proper left hand; an arrow at his side in his proper right hand. Water ...
The Guardian

Cupid's wicked weapon: why you should duck the love god's arrows

Stupid Cupid often gets it wrong, or worse, is malicious. His arrows are weapons and he uses them cruelly. The very first time Cupid appears in the ancient Roman epic of mythology, Ovid's ...
insider.si.edu

Smithsonian American Art Museum Mythology

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum The Clouds of Pele, (sculpture) Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum Court Square Fountain, (sculpture) Pre-1877 Art ...