A participant dressed as the Pink Panther stands on a vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London, part of a "living sculpture" that will allow more than 2,000 people to .
When it was built in 1841 the Fourth Plinth was intended for an equestrian statue, but the money ran out and the plinth remained empty for more than a century.
An American wins an hour on the 'fourth plinth' in London's Trafalgar Square and presents a real-time poem crafted from tweets.
Antony Gormley in BBC News Turner Prize winner Mr Gormley, who became famous for Gateshead's The Angel of the North, said: "Through elevation onto the plinth and removal from common ground, the body becomes a metaphor, a symbol and allows us to reflect on the diversity,...
Nicholas Penny in Bloomberg The conversion of the fourth plinth into a soap box or theatrical stage may be high-minded in intention but is symptomatic of this pervasive antagonism to architectural order,Penny said.
Boris Johnson in Independent Mr Johnson, who by this time had been told of the plan to honour the Queen, wrote of Mr Park: "The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square would be a wonderful spot, but it appears complex planning issues would make it difficult to secure this location on...