Boy With Frog in Venice
Rainy Day is always good for a post about our favourite amphibian, which takes its name from Old English frogga via Old Norse frauki, German Frosch, Old Dutch kikvorsch, Sanskrit plava, probably deriving from the Proto-Indo-European praw = "to jump". Which is what frogs do.
Anyway, yesterday's entry about Venice's dazzling new contemporary art space omitted a big talking point — a two-metre tall sculpture of a boy holding a frog, by the American artist Charles Ray. "Boy With Frog" is set to become a signpost for the Punta della Dogana on the Grand Canal.
Photo: Charles Ray's "Boy With Frog" on the Grand Canal by Todd Heisler of the The New York Times
