Sculptures might last longer?

While wondering around London, they have so many sculptures, in parks, near parkettes, some iconic, British famous characters, some just interesting creations (giraffes riding bikes). My only concern would be vandalism, but it would be nice to have art…my oldest is taking fine arts and there is not a lot of creative jobs here, anymore…we used to have opera, the philharmonic, didn’t we have our own ballet company? Kind of sad that our arts have slowly gone away….focused more on sports…