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The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is home to a rolling commission of artworks.

Paloma Varga Weisz, Bumpman for Trafalgar Square (2021), model. Photo by James O'Jenkins, courtesy of the National Gallery, London. 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, Teresa Margolles, Ibrahim Mahama, Nicole Eisenman, Paloma Varga Weisz, and Samson Kambalu, whose designs range from a monument to the trans community featuring 850 plaster facial casts to a giant space rocket. The public can vote for its favorite sculpture ...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.  A few years ago, when Michael Rakowitz’s statue of a lamassu – a winged god from ancient Assyria, in what is now Iraq – sat on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, I would often stop by to see it. I liked how its reflective surface, made out of brightly coloured tin cans, layered along the body like scales and folded into feathery shapes, would change according to the weather. Unlike the monochrome monuments that make up the rest of Trafalgar Square, the lamassu, Rakowitz’s reconstruction of a statue originally from the palace of Nineveh tha...

The artist, whose latest work is currently gracing Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, on the joy of weather forecasts, a gripping memoir, and the greatness of Theaster Gates

A major new immersive exhibition by Heather Phillipson has been unveiled at Tate Britain ahead of its reopening. Metallic creatures drinking from a pool of fuel, a giant papier-mache ram coated in newspaper and mountains of salt have been positioned throughout the grand Duveen Galleries at the London venue. Phillipson has “reimagined the galleries as alive”, according to Tate, and a sensory experience is achieved through eerie sound effects, video displays and changing lights at the Rupture No 1: Blowtorching The Bitten Peach exhibition. Artist Heather Phillipson said it was a ‘dream’...