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| The giant bright-blue cockerel (by German sculptor Katharina Fritsch) on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. It joins the august company of George IV and generals Havelock and Napier on the other three plinths and Admiral Nelson on his column. What a great splash of fun and colour! |
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| The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square. |
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| Five paintings I saw and loved in the National Gallery: (anticlockwise from the top) Van Gogh's Farms near Auvers and Long Grass with Butterflies, Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed, Cézanne's Landscape with Poplars and Monet's The Water-Lily Pond. |
