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Over the summer, Black Lives Matter protestors toppled a Civil War memorial in Denver, Colorado. State representatives  have recently voted to replace the statue with a sculpture of a Native American woman in mourning. The statue will commemorate the 1864 Sand Creek massacre where U.S. army soldiers destroyed and pillaged a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado, as per CPR News.

The Capitol Building Advisory Committee voted 7-2 to build the replacement monument after hearing from descendants of the hundreds that were killed at Sand Creek. “They were wiped out,” Otto Braided Hair, of the Northern Cheyenne, told the committee. “Their voices are no longer heard. Their wishes and concerns were no longer heard. Those are the people we speak for.”

The original statue at the Capitol was torn down during the June 25 protest and had been erected in 1909 as an homage to Colorado solders who fought for the Union during the Civil War. However, the memorial included the name of the colonel who orchestrated the massacre, CBS4 reported. The statue is now being housed at the History Colorado Center.

Artist Harvey Pratt, a Sand Creek descendant, was commissioned to create the statue by the organization One Earth Future. A seven-inch prototype of Pratt’s design has recently been completed and the state legislature will now vote on the scale of the finished work alongside its pedestal.Tate Ward recently launched an online auction dedicated to the sale of diverse works in contemporary art and beyond. Titled “By Collectors for Collectors,” the lots featured works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Cy Twombly, among many others. 

One of the highlights of the sale was a 2004 print by Banksy titled Pulp Fiction which is an hamage to the cult 1994 American neo-noir, dark comedy crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The work portrays John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in their suit-clad roles of Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, respectively.

Banksy’s Pulp Fiction snapped up £125,000 GBP (approx. $166,331 USD). The piece first appeared in 2002 near the Old Street tube station. The print was visible until 2007 when Transport for London painted over the wall. When the mural was covered, a local artist spray-painted the words “Come Back” in its place, addressing the note to Banksy. The elusive artist re-tagged his Pulp Fiction in the same place, but this time, the characters were holding actual pistols and dressed in banana costumes instead of suits. 

Last month, the East London auction house sold Banksy’s Thrower for over $200,000 USD — a record for the print which has never been sold publicly.