Live and uncensored: The Fourth Plinth

"Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a different person will step up to the Fourth Plinth [in London's Trafalgar Square] and help make a living portrait of the UK now."

Wrote Sarah Lyall in a July 6, 2009 New York Times story, "Plinthers, as they are being called, are alloted specific slots and are expected to show up on time, even if it is, say, 2 a.m. or raining. They must spend the hour alone, but are otherwise allowed to do whatever they feel like doing, within reason."

"They can even take their clothes off. 'Nakedness is absolutely essential,' Mr. Gormley said in an interview. 'Nakedness is to art what the ball is to football.'"

"How about sex? 'No sex up there,' he decreed. 'Sex after art.'"

Well, there it is, then.

The first person ascended this past Monday and the last will do so on October 6, 2009.