Karen K. Ho is a senior writer at Artnews. Her writing on business, culture, and media has appeared in Quartz, TIME, GQ, Glamour, Men's Health, The Cut, Vox, CJR, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia University. She is on Twitter at @karenkho and her bot is @doomscroll_bot. She recently moved to Brooklyn.
The bronze statue made national headlines after thieves cut the historic figure off at its ankles, and burned remains were found in a trash can five days later.