Its courted controversy in the past, but the ICA’s new show makes a stand for the plinth’s cultural significance. By Charlotte Simmonds Back in 1994, when a businesswoman, restaurateur, and RSA chair ...

Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth will tell the stories of trans and gender variant people through a new art installation featuring 726 face masks. Created by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles ...

Katharina Fritsch’s Hahn/Cock sat on a space meant for a king. London Assembly A participant in Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth work, One and Other. London Assembly The U.K. has had an ...

The latest 9.4 meter (30.8 feet) sculpture is the work of British artist Heather Phillipson, and will stand on the plinth until spring 2022, according to a statement from the Mayor of London. It ...

For years there has been heated debate about who to put on the vacant plinth, empty between 1841 and 1999, although recently it has been used to showcase modern sculptures. Former London mayor Ken ...

The plinth was built in 1841 to display a permanent statue of William IV, but money ran out. It was empty until 1999 when it became the location for an ongoing series of temporary artworks ...

A 32ft (10m) thumbs-up sign is one of six new ideas in the running for a place on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Artists have been asked to produce models of their proposed designs ...

Artworks that feature a sweet potato island and an ice cream van are among those shortlisted for London’s Fourth Plinth. The Trafalgar Square north-west pedestal has been home to art ...