In the main square of Kingston upon Hull, a gigantic wing has fallen from the sky. Or so it seems. Did it belong to a bird? Was it attached to a plane? Turns out not: in fact, the huge object is the rotor blade of a wind turbine manufactured by the Siemens factory that opened in September on the city’s once derelict Alexandra Dock, now rebranded Green Port Hull. At 246ft in length it’s the world’s largest fibreglass component, and it’s been transformed into a work of art called Blade, part of the Look Up programme of art in public spaces marking Hull’s status as UK City of Culture 2017.

The artist responsible is from Norwich, the Slade-educated Nayan Kulkarni; but the main point is to celebrate local talent. In the city’s first contemporary art space, the Humber Street Gallery, newly opened in an empty warehouse in the former Fruit Market, the Hull-born queen of 1960s counter-culture Cosey Fanni Tutti has curated a show revisiting the heyday of home-grown performance art collective COUM Transmissions, whose gospel of sexual liberation and hippie cosmology was leavened with a disarming dose of northern humour. The show shares the gallery with a display of bawdy sculptures by former “Young British Artist” Sarah Lucas – both carry warnings of explicit content – but the most eye-catching exhibit in the building is a rusted panel of corrugated iron in the downstairs bar graffitied with a drawing of a bird on its back and the words “DEAD BOD”.