{"id":19789,"date":"2020-11-30T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:42:44","slug":"in-photos-the-giant-upside-down-globe-in-holborn-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/in-photos-the-giant-upside-down-globe-in-holborn-london\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-01.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located within the campus of the London School of Economics in Sheffield Street, the <em>World Turned Upside Down<\/em> is a thought-provoking sculpture by the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-02.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking its name from a 17th-century English ballad, the sculpture measures 13 feet (4 m) in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>The glove has been inverted on to its North Pole, revealing a different perspective on the world, with most of the landmasses now lying in the lower hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more photos of the piece which is free to view at any time:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-10.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-03.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-04.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-05.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-06.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-07.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-08.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-09.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Handprints show where someone has tried to get on top of the globe!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-11.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-12.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/world-turned-upside-down-13.jpg\" alt=\"The giant upside down globe in Holborn, London\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>More info<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/News\/Latest-news-from-LSE\/2019\/03-Mar-19\/LSE-unveils-new-sculpture-by-Mark-Wallinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The World Turned Upside Down\u201d &#8211; LSE unveils new sculpture by Mark Wallinger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Wallinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Wallinger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Join the discussion<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/public-art-in-london.352333\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public art in London<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Location:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d155.18345906501293!2d-0.11751104369759381!3d51.51440215703202!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x487604b5559550e5%3A0x16306c549677c4!2sSheffield%20St%2C%20Holborn%2C%20London!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1606739931936!5m2!1sen!2suk\" width=\"735\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" aria-hidden=\"false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located within the campus of the London School of Economics in Sheffield Street, the World Turned Upside Down is a thought-provoking sculpture by the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1765,3,456,17,193],"tags":[34,1426,10,1100,18,1195,567],"class_list":["post-19789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-brixton","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-art","tag-free","tag-london","tag-mark-wallinger","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/world-turned-upside-down-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-59b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19794,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789\/revisions\/19794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}