Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth is fine for horses, but not avant garde art

The new works destined for London say pithy things about the modern world – but they keep sculpture trapped in the 19th century

I’ve never been convinced that Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth public sculpture project, in London, is a marvellous thing for art – it is a completely outdated way of displaying sculpture that modern art specifically and, I thought, finally rejected a long time ago.

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