Fourth Plinth
The new fourth plinth is decidedly misjudged
As I sat down to write this article, an artist friend phoned me to deliver a pithy but convincing defence…
Missionary position
Alexander Chula on the uncomfortable lessons of the new Fourth Plinth statues
![Ivory plaque of a lioness mauling a man, ivory, gold, cornelian, lapis lazuli, Nimrud, 900 BC–700 BC. [© The Trustees of the British Museum]](https://www.spectator.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lioness_plaque.jpg?w=410&h=275&crop=1)
The Assyrians of Ashurbanipal’s time were just as into pillage and destruction as Isis
The Assyrians placed sculptures of winged human-headed bulls (lamassus) at the entrances to their capital at Nineveh, in modern Mosul,…
