The statue of a bronze bull near Wall Street symbolizes American big business’s legendary take-no-prisoners attitude, but until this week, it never had a specific target to charge at.

An upstate New York foundry has been retained to repair the “Charging Bull,” the iconic bronze bull sculpture near Wall Street that was damaged over the weekend when a man smashed a metal ...

Arturo Di Modica holds a model of his “Charging Bull” sculpture during a 2017 news conference in New York. Di Modica, the artist who sculpted the bronze bull statue in New York, a symbol of ...

The bull was also never supposed to have a permanent residence near Wall St. Di Modica spent $350,000 out of pocket, then put the sculpture right by the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989.

A statue of a girl facing the Wall St. Bull is seen, as part of a campaign by U.S. fund manager State Street to push companies to put women on their boards, in the financial district in New York.

Wall Street’s iconic bronze bull statue was just joined by a new arrival, installed Tuesday morning. But whereas the animal, officially named Charging Bull, is meant to represent the prosperity ...

Arturo Di Modica, the artist who sculpted “Charging Bull,” the bronze statue in New York that became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, died Feb. 19 at his home in Vittoria on the Italian island ...

Move over bronze bull, there’s a new statue drawing attention on Wall Street in time for International Women’s Day. On Tuesday, New Yorkers and tourists in lower Manhattan found themselves ...

With hopes of dispensing the “perfect antidote” to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue designed to ...

March 1986. The Mystery of the Missing Bull begins. Spring was still cold in Chicago that year when the big bronze bull, flanked by a bronze goddess, disappeared from Garfield Park. How do you stea… ...

His bronze statue in New York became an iconic symbol of Wall Street. A view of the "Charging Bull" sculpture made by the artist Arturo Di Modica located in New York City, on Aug. 13, 2020.

They deposited the bronze bull anyway, and, as the artist told it, uncorked a bottle of Champagne. Di Modica left Vittoria, Sicily, at age 19 for Florence, where he studied at the Fine Arts Academy.