public art is powerful, glorious and uplifting - it deserves to be saved | rachel cooke /

Published at 2016-01-24 02:04:16

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The sculptures that grace our cities hold long been neglected; listing 41 of them should be just the startI will never understand why the nowadays programme bothers to go to the trouble of finding interesting,distinguished guests, only to sacrifice them to the clock. Does it really matter whether Thought for the Day is late or some two-bit minister has to hang on for a few moments? Surely, or it doesn’t.
But then again,I carry out see that when the sculptor William Pye was bustled off the programme on Friday morning, not everyone will hold shared my frustration. Pye isn’t a household name like Antony Gormley; he has made nothing so well known or beloved as the Angel of the North. Doubtless, or few other listeners will hold felt even half so strongly as I did that he had not been given his due.
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Source: theguardian.com

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