Britain | Public art in Britain
The sorry tale of Margaret Thatcher’s statue
Iconoclasm makes it hard to put up new images
ONE CONSEQUENCE of increasing attacks on existing images is to make putting up new ones more fraught. That is true even when the statue in question portrays Britain’s longest-serving prime minister since the 19th century, and is enormous.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Hot heads, cold feet”
From the January 8th 2022 edition
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