David Černý has struck again. The enfant terrible of Czech art initially denied that he was behind the sculptures that are to be installed on the newly renovated Maj department store. But it soon became clear that the hybrid butterfly/Spitfires that flooded social media were indeed his work. Usually, the battle lines that form have the Club for Old Prague on one side and a developer on the other. This time, an interesting debate actually broke out over public space, and over the role of developers in it. But this potentially productive friction eventually dissolved into farce . . .
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