Street art · London
Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 3.0
Monument to the Unknown Artist
Frozen mid-gesture outside a glass office block, this bronze-toned figure in a rumpled suit points into the crowd like a busker mid-plea. The Latin base reads "don't applaud, just throw money" — a wry jab at art patronage itself.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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