Ten-metre-tall Marilyn Monroe declared the world's most terrible work of art

'The problem with art in public spaces is that you can't avoid it. With art in a museum, you can at least choose not to go to the museum, but with these works you are literally forced to make a detour to miss them. That fact, and the fact that in some cases you are also responsible for them with your tax money, leads to rather strong opinions among our visitors.'

Speaking is the website's editor-in-chief Virtual Tourist, which today announced the selection of the world's supreme work of art, at least in the eyes of visitors to the American-hosted tourism website. With a bullet on 1 is the metre-high statue of Marilyn Monroe, in the historic underground shaft pose from the film Seven Year Itch. Not only do people find it distasteful, the fact that the in New York recorded scene in a square in San Francisco recalled, shoots many a visitor the wrong way. For the commissioner of the artwork, by the way, this is only a reason to be proud of the stainless steel sculpture: 'Art should provoke discussion, and this work does that like no other.'

Incidentally, there is also a Dutch winner in the election: the 13.5-metre-high Amsterdam sculpture 'Monument to Anthony Winkler Prins' on Frederick Square in the capital. Which in itself could be another nice phallic answer to the Monroe statue.