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    OPINION - Oscar Wilde would hate this hideous sculpture of him that's coming to London

    by Melanie McDonagh Apr 29, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: Paolozzi Foundation

    On the bright side, there are, it seems, no moral grounds for denying a memorial on consecrated ground. A of his head can now be erected in a former churchyard in Chelsea after a Church of England consistory court overrode objections that it would be and it is quite, quite hideous.

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