Sunday, December 14, 2003
The Fourth Plinth project has been set up and endorsed by Ken Livingstone to look at options for a rolling series of displays on the currently vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Of the current current artist proposals the only one that really appeals is Thomas Schutte's 'Hotel for the Birds', the rest seem like gallery pieces, I like Marc Quinn's 'Alison Lapper pregnant' but I'm not really convinced by his reasons for why it should be in Trafalgar Square and not a gallery somewhere. As for Sarah Lucas' 'This Ones For the Pigeons', [ sigh ]. One day Britart will have shed it's popular image of being obsessed with bodily products and/or sex. But not while this is on the fourth plinth.
