was painted in the colors of the LGBT rainbow flag and had its testicles removed, and remained that way for weeks before it was restored. And then, within the same month, vandals painted it with multicolor flowers. It was the target of political vandalism in December 2012, when its horns and the top of its head were cut off, and again in October 2019. The bull, covered in graffiti and in a general state of disrepair, succumbed to strong wind gusts in December 2021; it remained down for five months, until it suddenly and mysteriously reappeared in May 2022, still covered in graffiti. Between May 8 and 11, 2005, the artist Javier Figueredo, with the help of three assistants, transformed the bull in Casar de Cáceres into a Holstein cow, referred to at the time as "the Osborne cow" (). They painted white spots on the bull, put a pink bow on it, and replaced its testicles with a pink steel udder they bolted onto the frame. Figueredo said at the time that he did it to spark more cultural interest in the region. The local authorities charged him with vandalism. On 18 May 2017, as a protest against bullfighting, the urban artist Sam3 reproduced Picasso's Guernica on the bull in the Alicante town of Santa Pola. Over the course of one night in late May 2022, an unknown artist and three assistants painted a bull in A Limia sky blue, which caused it to seemingly disappear into the sky at certain times of the day. (This same bull had also been painted white in 2008, which also caused it to seemingly disappear under certain lighting conditions.) Calling it an act of vandalism against private property and not a form of artistic expression, by late July Osborne had repainted the bull black. In popular culture An Osborne bull (and his testicles in particular) figures prominently in director Bigas Luna's 1992 film Jamón Jamón. The Osborne bull was included in the exhibit "Signs of the Century: 100 Years of Graphic Design in Spain" held from March 14 to May 23, 2000 at the Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre in Madrid. John Robinson's character in Gus Van Sant's 2003 film Elephant wears a yellow tee shirt with an image of the Osborne bull. To celebrate the bull’s 50th anniversary, in 2006-2007 Osborne partnered with the Washington, DC-based nonprofit Share Our Strength