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Fourth plinth

September 2024

  • Echoes of an Aztec masterpiece … Margolles poses in front of Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in An Instant).

    Teresa Margolles’s fourth plinth review – haunting rack of faces memorialises transgender victims of violence

  • Mil Veces un Instante on display in Trafalgar Square

    London’s fourth plinth artwork aims to ‘unite trans community around the world’

  • ‘I’m afraid of both life and death’ … the ex-forensic pathologist with some of the face casts.

    ‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 726 trans lives on the fourth plinth

  • Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier), 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.1 × 54.6 cm Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena, California © Norton Simon Art Foundation<br>for Van Gogh exhibition at National Gallery

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Van Gogh dazzles, the Fourth Plinth beckons and Norwich nabs some narcs – the week in art

March 2024

  • A scale model of Andra Ursuța's Untitled piece

    ‘Everywoman’ and horse sculptures chosen for display at London’s fourth plinth

    London mayor’s office hopes works for Trafalgar Square will continue tradition of fostering debate over art

February 2024

  • Veronica Ryan with her work Sweet Potatoes and Yams are Not the Same.

    Sweet potato island and a black cat shortlisted for London’s fourth plinth

  • ‘Looking to the future’ ... Marc Quinn’s Alison Lapper Pregnant on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, London.

    How we made
    ‘Statues are of dead blokes. This is a living woman kicking arse’: how we made the fourth plinth’s Alison Lapper Pregnant

July 2023

  • Alan Turing

    LGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth

    Trafalgar Square monument would stand in ‘stark contrast’ to treatment codebreaker received in his lifetime

January 2023

  • Rowan Moore

    Architectural vision for London station is little more than smoke and mirrors

    Rowan Moore
    Dazzling computer-generated images of a newly revamped Liverpool Street do little to establish its merits or flaws
  • Michael Rakowitz in front of his sculpture

    Artist asks British Museum to return Assyrian treasure to Iraq in swap

    Sculptor Michael Rakowitz says he will give his fourth-plinth bull to Tate Modern if Iraq can share custody
  • Whiteread’s fourth plinth piece Monument, a resin cast of the formerly empty plinth, is in storage

    Rachel Whiteread calls for end to Trafalgar Square fourth plinth sculptures

    Artist says programme needs ‘rethink’ amid evidence that sculptors cannot find permanent homes for their work

October 2022

  • Sadiq Khan

    Sadiq Khan received racist abuse after false reports he blocked Queen statue

    Telegraph incorrectly claimed the London mayor had ruled out a sculpture of the late Queen on Trafalger Square’s fourth plinth

September 2022

  • Samson Kambalu’s Antelope on the fourth plinth.

    Samson Kambalu’s Antelope review – an imperial showdown on the fourth plinth

    The Malawian-born artist’s traditional bronze figures might suggest a win for the culture warriors, but they subversively celebrate an anti-colonial hero
  • Recent works to occupy the site include Heather Phillipson’s The End.

    Prue Leith, instigator of fourth plinth, resists calls for Queen statue

    Bake Off judge, who campaigned to use Trafalgar Square space for contemporary art, says it’s not prominent enough for monarch
  • The professor will see you now … Samson Kambalu in his rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford.

    ‘Everything in Oxford was built with dodgy money’ – iconoclastic professor and fourth plinth artist Samson Kambalu

    As he prepares to unveil his fourth plinth sculpture, the cigar-smoking, boxing-glove-wearing artist talks about hat-banning colonialists, his journey from Africa to Oxford – and the joys of renouncing ambition

July 2022

  • Samson Kambalu with his plinth design, Antelope

    Anticolonial hero statue to occupy Trafalgar Square fourth plinth from September

    Antelope by Samson Kambalu depicts John Chilembwe wearing hat in defiance of colonial rule in Nyasaland, now Malawi

July 2021

  • woman looking at a sculpture of plaster faces around a plinth

    Faces of 850 trans people to follow anticolonial rebel on fourth plinth

    High-profile Trafalgar Square site to feature work by artists Teresa Margolles and Samson Kambalu

May 2021

  • A National Gallery assistant looks at Bumpman by Paloma Varga Weisz, one of six artworks proposed for the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square.

    Fourth plinth shortlist includes huge rocket and casts of 850 trans women

    Public invited to give their views as models of ideas for next Trafalgar Square installation go on display

April 2021

  • Catherine Bennett

    Down with statue politics! Let’s put this lifeless public art back in its box

    Catherine Bennett
    When Laurence Fox gets in on the act, it’s time to leave Churchill and others in peace

March 2021

  • Clockwise from top left; Samson Kambalu, Teresa Margolles, Ibrahim Mahama, Nicole Eisenman, Paloma Varga Weisz, Goshka Macuga

    Mexican artist who shines bloody light on drug violence on fourth plinth shortlist

    Teresa Margolles one of six Trafalgar Square contenders to make ‘strikingly international’ list
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