Hull’s Blade sculpture is big, bold and beautiful | Letters

Adrian Searle’s dismissive review of the Blade sculpture, part of the Hull’s City of Culture events (‘Wreckers of civilisation’, G2, 6 February) rather misses the point. Blade is not just “bigging up” a propeller that might have been admired by Constantin Brâncuși: it represents the regeneration of a neglected and often despised city that has suffered economic decline for the past 40 years.As a sculpture it is neither in the genre of Richard Serra&r