A plinth is a base upon which something is built — in this case, a cabinet — but it has entered popular usage as a reference to the skirting that covers the gap between the cabinet and the floor.

When Mark Wallinger unveiled Ecce Homo, his life-size sculpture of Christ cast from the body of a former art student, on the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999, Antony Gormley must ...

David Shrigley's Really Good and Hans Haacke's Gift Horse are to occupy the Fourth Plinth, but is it a thumbs up from Mark Hudson?

The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is being kept free for a statue of the Queen riding a horse which will be commissioned after she dies, say senior officials. The plan sheds new light on why ...

The winners are picked by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, partly based on feedback from the public. See more images of the shortlisted works below. Ruth Ewan, Believe in Discontent (2024).

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 ...

The Fourth Plinth programme was initiated in 1998 by the RSA (the Royal Society for arts, manufactures and commerce) with the support of the Cass Sculpture Foundation.

News The Fourth Plinth’s newest artwork is a monument to trans lives – and it’s just been revealed A moving new sculpture by Teresa Margolles is made up of hundreds of plaster casts of the ...