Santa Claus by Paul McCarthy
Six-metre bronze Santa clutching a stylised Christmas tree, a cheeky and much-debated public artwork.
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This guide to Paul McCarthy's Santa Claus on Eendrachtsplein in Rotterdam follows a six-metre bronze that the city bought in the early two thousands and then could not agree where to put. You'll meet the political parties, newspaper letter-writers and shopkeepers who argued over it, and the nickname that has stuck to it ever since. Best heard standing in front of Santa, looking up at what he holds in his right hand.
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