On the same day that haunting images of a three-year-old boy washed ashore on a Turkish beach galloped across social media, and as thousands of desperate refugees squeezed on to trains in Budapest, the European Central Bank installed a sculpture called “gravity and growth” in front of its Frankfurt headquarters.
The artwork is one of three that will grace the ECB skyscraper, at a cost to taxpayers of €1.25 million.
According to Benoit Cœure, ECB executive board member and chair of...
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