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Susan Hall, one of the three Mayoral hopefuls shortlisted by the Tories to be their candidate for London Mayor, has got behind plans to erect a statue of the late Queen in Trafalgar Square.

A bronze sculpture called Antelope, installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London in September 2022, depicting Baptist preacher and Pan-Africanist John Chilembwe, who led (1915) the first uprising against the British occupation and colonial rule of Malawi (then Nyasaland), provides a powerful counterpoint to the imperial iconography of Trafalgar Square.

EXCLUSIVE: A plan to erect a statue to the late Queen Elizabeth II in Trafalgar Square has been scuppered by the Tory mayoral selection fiasco.

We asked for your favourite meetup spots in London

50 questions all about the history of London

We shouldn't be tearing down statues, but where plinths are empty we should use them to pay tribute to living Londoners changing the city, writes Daniel Korski.

Polish-born Agnieszka Pilat will train Boston Dynamics robot dogs to paint autonomously. Audiences can witness the robot dogs painting a monolithic durational work. Pilat imagines that in a distant future these paintings will be revered as the first primitive art-making of AI enabled robots.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Painter Agnieszka Pilat and her trained robots join a lineup that includes Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin and fashion house Schiaparelli

Plus, Ezra Chowaiki dishes on the art world's dirty secrets and Pace adds the estates of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.