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FOURTH PLINTH (2026)

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      The unveiling of a new work of art on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth always invites controversy - and this is no exception ...                Lady In Blue is by Tschabalala Self .  According to the artist, " My work will bring to Trafalgar Square a woman that many can relate to.  She is not an idol to venerate or a historic figurehead to commemorate.  She is a woman walking forward into our collective future with ambition and purpose. She is a Londoner, who represents the city's spirit."     I think I would have preferred her to say "It's just a bit of fun" and leave us to form our own opinions.  One also wonders what the reaction would have been had Lady in Blue  been created by a white man rather than a black woman.       Anyhow, I prefer it to the previous effort by Teresa Margolles ...      ... plaster casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-b...
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CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY

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    The Grade I-listed City of London Cemetery is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in Europe. Anyone may be buried there irrespective of City connections or religious beliefs.       The 200-acre grounds in Manor Park, east London, were laid out between 1853 and 1855 by William Haywood  to relieve the appalling overcrowding of inner London's burial grounds.      The main entrance, with its splendid Gothic arches and tiled roofs with fish-scale decoration, is one of the eight Grade II-listed buildings within the cemetery.      There are large monuments commemorating people whose remains were transferred from twenty-two over-populated inner-city churchyards. The largest is the Grade II-listed monument (above) erected in 1871 over lead coffins from St Andrew Holborn and St Sepulchre.        Traditional Crematorium                      ...
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