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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jamie Grierson

‘Eye-wounding erection’: UK public art that is loved or hated

The chief art critic at the Times called Couple a visually obnoxious pair of painted bronze lovers’.
Couple: ‘A visually obnoxious pair of painted bronze lovers’. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

It was described by one council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted and has attracted so much controversy that no artist has admitted to making it. But the outside a Cambridge office block, which is to be taken down years after it appeared, is not alone as a work of divisive public art.

Here we take a look at other sculptures and installations that have split opinion:

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