BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — If you’ve noticed a giant sculpture of a boat on Boston’s City Hall Plaza, don’t get too attached to it. It’ll be set on fire and burned to the ground on Sept. 12.
Sculptor Adela Goldbard was commissioned to build the boat as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial.
“We’re using traditional Mexican-style pyrotechnics,” Goldbard said. “And so this is kind of a festive but also battle-like scene, [a] theatrical scene, where the ship is going to be burned in effigy…