The case of the Frankenstein Nefertiti: it's time to revolt against ugly public art

As Egyptian protesters get a colossal – and colossally awful – sculpture of the ancient queen pulled down, we need to topple all the other art that’s an insult to our public spaces

Egypt has had a revolution, and we should emulate it. We need a revolution against bad public art.

Ugly sculpture is a global phenomenon. From a daft statue of Peter Falk in Budapest to the colossally kitsch couple at St Pancras Station in London, clumsily executed excuses for figurative art are insulting public spaces. And we put up with it. A few aesthetes may gripe, and online galleries have a laugh at all the unsightly art appearing everywhere, but most people passively accept the right of ignorant art-commissioning bodies and arrogant artists to impose their awful taste on the rest of us.

Egypt has shown the way forward. Workers of the world, rise up against ​all the ​bad statues

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