TRAFALGAR SQUARE Top Stories
London Evening Standard: Hundreds of Londoners gathered in Trafalgar Square today to watch the opening ceremony of the World Cup on a giant screen. MayorBoris Johnson joined tourists and...
The Independent: Today...Sink into a deck chair in Trafalgar Square, London, where two weekends of free performances kick off with an examination of the great British summer, from a...
Hartford Courant: (AP) — It's art for the people, of the people — and definitely by the people. A 35-year-old mother-of-two stepped onto an seven meter-high (23 foot-high)...
The Daily Mail: Moments before the first member of the public prepared to become a living work of art in Trafalgar Square this morning, a protester stormed onto the plinth, brandishing a...
Gizmodo: Jon Partridge - For the low, low price of only £3.4 million pounds, the British public is set to be exposed to a really naff looking UFO crash in November. Designed by British artist Stuart Semple, the structure looks to tower over the unsuspecting...
The Guardian: On Saturday 12 May, the rain clouds briefly lifted and the London Symphony Orchestra...
The Observer: The public has not "paid twice" for Nelson's ship in a bottle ("Row as public pays twice for artwork on Fourth Plinth", News). The Greater London Authority (GLA) contributes £140,000 to pay the craftsmen, fabricators and other highly skilled small businesses...
The Observer: Yinka Shonibare's 'ship in a bottle' on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images A large-scale sculpture of Nelson's ship in a bottle stood on the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square for 20 months until last January....
The Guardian: Wheelchair users chain themselves together in latest in a series of direct action protests against welfare cuts A disabled activist at the protest in central London...
Trafalgar Square meets its Waterloo... Now the hosepipe ban has shut down famous fountains (and ...2012-04-06
The Daily Mail: London’s iconic Trafalgar Square fountains will be switched off over the summer to comply with the strict hosepipe ban. Thames Water has ordered the supply be cut last night as part of a blanket restriction, which includes ornamental fountains, designed...
The Independent: More than 100 actors took part in the theatrical event in the Good Friday sunshine, with even a donkey and a couple of horses among the cast. The Passion of Jesus dramatised the story of Easter, complete with Jesus hanging on the cross and rising from his...
The Daily Telegraph: Trafalgar Square’s fountains will be turned off next week due to the hosepipe ban and are set to stay off all summer - denting Diamond Jubilee and Olympics celebrations. The Greater London Authority said the fountains will be unable to operate when the...
London Evening Standard: There are apparently more than 160,000Russians living in London and many of them were in Trafalgarsky Ploshad (Trafalgar Square) yesterday to celebrate Maslenitsa - a farewell to winter - and join compatriots in Red SquareMoscow via a TV link. It was lightly...
The Norway Post: A close to four-meter high Scandinavian-made sculpture of a boy on a rocking horse will be on display in London’s Trafalgar Square for the next 18 months. The Norwegian-Danish artist duo Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen...
