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New Fourth Plinth Sculptures to Include Giant Cock

Katharina Fritsch's “Hahn/Cock” (2010), Elmgreen & Dragset's “Powerless Structures, Fig. 101” And here we thought the Brits were all repressed about their sexuality. London’s famed Fourth Plinth, a ...
Artnet

London’s Newest Fourth Plinth Sculpture Is a Tribute to an Anti-Colonial Hero. Politicians Want to Replace It With a Statue of Queen Elizabeth II

This week, the newest commission in the prestigious Fourth Plinth sculpture series, a monument to the pan-African Baptist pastor and anti-colonialist icon John Chilembwe, was unveiled in London’s ...
Yahoo

Black ‘everywoman’ statue to appear on Trafalgar Square fourth plinth

Sadiq Khan has approved plans to install a statue of a black “everywoman” on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth as an apparent symbol of “equity” in the capital. Lady in Blue, a painted bronze statue by ...
Artnet

See the Models for the Next Fourth Plinth Commission, From Nicole Eisenman’s ‘Jewelry Tree’ to a Statue of a Malawian Revolutionary

Sculptural models by the finalists for the next two editions of the Fourth Plinth commission that graces London’s Trafalgar Square have been revealed to the public. The six finalists are Goshka Macuga ...
Town & Country

There's Debate Over the Placement of a Queen Elizabeth Memorial

In June 2025, it was announced that the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II will be located in St. James's Park. More on that news, here. Read the story on the debate over the location of the ...
The Stranger

This Fourth Plinth Business

I feel compelled to tell you that a Seattle artist, Ellen Ziegler, is taking part in artist Antony Gormley’s installation of rotating humans who change by the hour on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar ...
Yahoo

Giant cherry with cream, fly and drone unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heather Phillipson's sculpture ''THE END'', is seen after it was unveiled on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, in London LONDON ...
Time Out

Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth will unveil a striking new sculpture in September

However, that piece’s stint on the plinth is almost over. Soon, it’ll be removed to make way for the 16th Fourth Plinth ...
CNN

Whipped cream topped with a fly and drone is Trafalgar Square’s latest sculpture

A giant swirl of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone has become the latest artwork to sit atop Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth – the stage for a constantly changing series of ...
The Conversation

The fourth plinth artwork by Teresa Margolles is a powerful celebration of trans life – and an act of defiance

The fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square has long been used as a stage for provocative and thought-provoking artworks. Many commissions have been kitsch or whimsical by design – including a ...
insider.si.edu

Fourth Plinth : how London created the smallest sculpture park in the world / with a foreword by Grayson Perry ; texts by Isabel de Vasconcellos

HMSGMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The vacant plinth in the north-west corner of London's Trafalgar Square has provoked controversy for generations. Originally ...
Hyperallergic

Fourth Plinth

The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans. Sculptures by Huma Bhabha, Damián Ortego, Heather Phillipson, ...