Big names making big sculptures are making big waves. Six new ideas for sculptures for Trafalgar Square are open to public viewing from today - and you will have the chance to pick which one will follow the current whacking huge great Thomas Schütte coloured plexiglass sculpture that sits on the fourth plinth right now. The fourth plinth has remained empty since money ran out and a permanent statue of King William IV couldn't......

A new sculpture for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is unveiled today. Elbowing Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant out of the way (rudely ignoring all the current efforts of Team Nice) is German artist Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel 2007 and it replaces Quinn's cool, white, serene statue of a round-stomached Lapper with something distinctly more colourful and quirky. After a two year gestation period, Alison Lapper Pregnant has been taken down......

In 2012, eight out of ten London tourist sites will be inaccessible to people who can’t use stairs. So reckon the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly. Their Olympic spokesperson, Dee Doocey, told the BBC: Disabled athletes and visitors to the Games travelling on the Javelin trains from Stratford to St Pancras will not be able to continue their journey into central London to visit the capital's top attractions because most of the Tube......

There's been a whole plethora of stories about the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition over the past few weeks, but this one is by far and away the weirdest and the most entertaining. David Hensel is a 64-year-old sculptor who submitted 'a laughing head' made from jesmonite resin entitled One Day Closer To Paradise to the exhibition, but was puzzled when he turned up to at the preview to check out his work and found......

One for the ladeez: capitalwoman is back for its fifth year and will be held on Saturday 4th March at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and Central Hall Westminster. This annual conference organised by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, is open to all women of all ages and backgrounds, is free to attend (registration is necessary) and is the chance for women to come together to discuss the issues that affect them. There......

When photographer Diane Arbus visited London in 1970, she wrote in a letter, "Nobody seems miserable, drunk, crippled, mad, or desperate. I finally found a few vulgar things in the suburbs, but nothing sordid yet." We daresay that if she had just asked Londonist, we could have pointed her in some promising directions. (Okay we weren't around in 1970, but still.) In any case, the letter from London seems to confirm everyone's worst fears......

What is it with London councilors? After the rainbow flag ban and not allowing gay couples to hold their ceremonies on council property, they're now not letting Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square. Well his statue at any rate. What's that you say? Get the Mayor on the case? Before we could even light the Ken-signal atop Londonist HQ he had already jumped into the fray: "There can be no better place than our greatest......

There can't be many people left in the country, never mind London, who haven't seen the image of painter Alsion Lapper created by sculpture Marc Quinn. Of course the statue takes pride of place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square this week, but what has everyone got to say about it? Well the Guardian starts off by giving us the statistics: This is 11.5 tonnes of bright-white marble hewn from the Tuscan mountains;......