Gavin Turk: Rusty nail

The artist’s latest project is a giant rusty nail in the centre of the City of London. What will the bankers make of it? There was a time when a 12-metre rusty nail stuck into a City of London pavement might have raised a few eyebrows. Good lord, the bowler-hatted gents would have said, what abomination is this? Modern Art, no doubt! Today, Gavin Turk ‘s sculpture Nail, to be unveiled later this month at One New Change in London’s financial district, is unlikely to appal anyone, for it comes in the wake of a great wave of public art commissions that have changed the appearance of squares, hillsides and city centres across Britain. But which of these sculptures, that range from a bronze statue of the poet John Betjeman at St

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