They feel kitsch, inappropriate to their moment. Which is why the administrators of the Fourth Plinth have no option but to draw on what is happening now.

With One and Other, sculptor Antony Gormley is giving 2,400 people the chance to spend an hour alone on the Trafalgar Square plinth. He tells Alastair Sooke why.

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 ...

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 Fourth Plinth proposals range from a monument to the trans community featuring 850 plaster casts, to a giant space rocket.

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.

A "beguiling" sculpture depicting a whirl of cream has been unveiled in Trafalgar Square. The installation on the Fourth Plinth - home to a rolling commission of public artworks - was postponed by ...