Cock a doodle do London

This is the latest exhibit on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. It's a giant bright-blue cock!

"Hahn/Cock, the latest work to fill the square's empty fourth plinth, is by Katharina Fritsch, the German artist (or "sculpture ... er, sculptor ... er, sculptress", as the city's mayor, Boris Johnson, described her).

Gleefully feminist, the work pokes amiable fun at the vainglorious statues of men (Nelson, George IV, and generals Havelock and Napier) that surround it in this most imperial of British public spaces. "Humour is always a big thing for me," said Fritsch. "It stops things from becoming too severe. I like English humour. It is so often very dark."

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