The famous fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square has a rotating cast of artworks that are refreshed every few years, so it’s not as if people are shocked that the current installation there is being replaced. It was a question of what, not if or when. In this case, the “what” is two pieces of postmodern rubbish that are set to replace a statue of a preacher and a Christian missionary in what is now Malawi, which has been on the one empty plinth in the iconic public square since September 2022. According to the BBC, “Tschabalala Self’s bronze and blue homage to a metropolitan woman of colo…
