If each generation gets the art it deserves, perhaps future historians will rifle through digitised copies of the dominant literature of our time - Heat, Grazia and the biographies of Messrs Beckham, Katona et al - and conclude that, yes, a 50kg solid gold statue of a supermodel is a fitting tribute to the early 21st century. Mark Quinn's £1.5m likeness of Kate Moss, which we mentioned earlier in the year, was today unveiled at......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been out bisto-ing the Autumn air: A lipstick self-portrait by Kate Moss has sold for £33,600 at auction. Bet it was Rimmel ‘n’all. Madge has been fined £135,000 for a 40 minute overrun at her recent Wembley concert. London’s population has grown by half a million in the last decade. Exhibition Road and environs are to get a makeover. Three people are being questioned at Paddington......

A likeness of Kate Moss cast in gold and potentially weighing more than Kate Moss is just one of the figures that will be featured at the British Museum from 4 October. The statue by Marc Quinn (who famously created a bust of himself from eight pints of his own blood) is for the exhibition Statuephilia. Weighing in at 50kg, the British Museum has only released an extreme close-up shot of the statue, so......

We don't want to get burned again by a false rumour, like the sadly inaccurate story that Madonna was buying a London pub so take the following with a shtickl of salt: Kate Moss has apparently solved her transport woes by snapping up a black cab. The shy, retiring supermodel and occasional moral crusadee has parted company with £45,000 to get her hands on one of LTI's taxi cabs - a LTI-TX4, for those......

Subtitled 'An ode to the Hawley Arms' this catchy tune by OllyTheOctopus speculates on the possible causes and fallout from the recent conflagration. How will Kate Moss cope with the loss, and will Quinn's down the road, cope with the load? Pertinent questions, but we're most tickled by the notion that 'Noel Fielding's impractical clothes, stopped him getting to the hose'. A work of minor genius.......

This is what we have learned this weekend while you were out looking for snow… Brent Council are gonna get tough on non-recyclers. Fake voddy hits the home counties. Our Kate is battling to save Stepney’s George Tavern. Morrissey fans will have to wait a little longer. In court this weekend: people smugglers, a very greedy drugs baron, and prolific pickpocketers. Londonist reckons that they were all in it together. And this is what......

Crippled clipper to get cash injection However, local boroughs are still passing round the begging bowl - and does anybody have a spare £250 million stuck behind the sofa to help out West End theatres? Caterwauling Kate's karaoke marathons not entirely popular with new neighbours Department for Transport rapped on the knuckles over Metronet's "spectacular failure" Girl and pa lash themselves to Japanese embassy in anti-whaling protest. Image courtesy of onionbagblogger via the Londonist......

The London Art Fair opened to the public today in Islington. It's a massive art trade fair with modern and contemporary art to buy. There were many smart, be-scarved or brightly tie-d artsy types manning stalls looking bored or eating sandwiches and lots and lots of interesting art to ponder, point at and take photos of, which is apparently acceptable (I'm taking a photo to see if Flavia likes it, yah....). This is a......

Whilst many, last night, were labouring under the somewhat unreasonable expectations that our national football side might do something a little old school, like win, there was a group of us who went home late with a collective smile on our faces. The aforementioned happy folks gathered at the 229 Club, at the far end of Great Portland Street. There we faced drums that go thuddity thuddity thuddity boom, guitars that go danga danga......

Who is Pete Doherty? Get ready for a shock: Pete Doherty has had his wrist slapped again. What for this time? Assault? Possession of a dangerous weapon? No… surely not drugs again? Does anybody really care? Was anyone surprised? Will it happen again? Of course. Who on earth is Pete Doherty? OK, he sang in a band or two for a while…but that didn’t end too well - remember the cocaine shenanigans a few......

Oxford Street last night was the scene of yet more unfathomable shopping madness akin to the great Primark palava of, ooh, a month ago, as Topshop unveiled its violently hyped Kate Moss collection to adoring and seemingly psychologically imbalanced hordes. Queuing started at noon with thousands of shoppers turning up for the special 8pm opening (apparently tailing back to Marble Arch… Marble Arch!). The woman herself made an obligatory but unintentionally fleeting appearance in......

Nude pictures of Kate Moss are to be auctioned in London. But a word of advice, they'll cost you nearly £30,000 and remember, you don't get much Moss for your money. 203,000 have registered for Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium. That's 203,000 people willing to pay to hear James Blunt. Richard Fairgrass, lead singer of Right Said Fred, is running for London Mayor and we're going to vote for him. Image courtesy of......

This Day In London’s History 1962: The first ‘Panda crossing’ is opened on York Road, opposite Waterloo Station. Since the 1930s, pedestrian crossings in Britain were marked by poles bearing orange glass domes known as ’Belisha beacons’ (named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport at the time). Traffic approaching these crossings was required to stop and give way to any pedestrians who were waiting to cross the road. At around the same time,......

It's a good day for fans of caged simians. First, the dastard who stole SpongeBob the monkey from Chessington has been sentenced. Monkey rustler Marlon Brown will serve a year behind bars himself after what the judge described as "an act of devilry". In the event the monkey was recovered but it was traumatised and still is traumatised. You showed no remorse. SpongeBob has since been moved to Battersea Zoo. He infrequently updates his......

Is Janet Street-Porter doing a Jade? Merton care homes have come under fire. A wii console has been put in Leicester Square. How long till it gets vandalised? The Office for National Statistics has annouced it is to leave London by 2010. And finally Kate Moss went to a lot of bars and got wasted last night for her birthday. Photo taken from Simon Rigglesworth's photostream.......

The Independent Online has a loved-up profile of Pete Doherty. His PR people must be on red alert, as yesterday the Daily Mail’s A.N. Wilson was blaming him and Kate Moss for the murders of the five women in Suffolk. It was an unusually reasonable piece to begin with, asking why the media don’t discuss the womens’ drug use, and then Wilson loses it by going into frothy-mouth mode. Nick Hasted's profile chronicles Doherty’s......

As if you couldn't get enough of her...now Fred Vermorel, the author of Kate's unofficial biography 'Addicted to Love' is offering up the contents of Kate's discarded underwear. The part-time Kingston University lecturer, and author of biographies of Vivienne Westwood and the Sex Pistols, claims he received the basque from a friend of his. When pressed on what he had done with the no-doubt fashionable little number, he said "I DNA-tested it just to......

Moving on from filming a movie in the cinema, it now seem fake artefacts are to blame for funding terrorism in London. Miami Vice star Don Johnson will take over from Trevor from Eastenders in the West End production of Guys and Dolls in January. Nick Clarke, the presenter of Radio 4's World At One show died of cancer this morning. We forgot to mention it but from this week if you don't touch......

This week's entry comes from Ham, proprietor of the wonderful London Daily Photo, who sends us a slightly altered image of a garage in Stratford. Says Ham: 'I just couldn't help myself - Kate Moss loves London too'. Keep the photoshopped imagery of London coming. Londonist - at - gmail - dot - com. Londonist would like to stress that this is just a bit of fun, and that Esso garages and the ExxonMobil......

The British al Qaida terrorist who planned to blow up the tube has been jailed for a whopping 40 years. Kate Moss is at the forefront of a new National Portrait Gallery exhibition.. The Faces of Fashion exhibition will run from June next year. Meanwhile Kate's waster of a boyfriend was at court again today to be fined for attacking a Radio 1 newsreader he attacked when leaving the same court earlier in the......

Ken Livingstone has won his suspension appeal. Two soldiers who serve in the same Army regiment as Prince Harry, have been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl in Green Park on Saturday. A female passenger who grabbed a male flight attendant's buttocks over the Atlantic has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on her arrival in London. Police are certain the attack was not related to terrorism. The 'saviour of Topshop', Jane Shepherdson,......

In case you missed it earlier: The Met have pleaded not guilty to health and safety charges relating to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. It's a 'test case' apparently. Police patrols at churches and mosques in London have been stepped up following the protests over Pope Benedict's remarks about Islam. A survivor of July 7 has criticised TerrorBull Games of Cambridge for creating War on Terror: The Board Game. The game includes......

Well, London Fashion Week begins today and the first story of the week isn't the usual Is London still fashionable nonsense, but something slightly less shallow: thin models. On one side you've got Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, who wants the LFW organisers to ban what she calls "stick-thin" models from its catwalks. And on the other side you've got the British Fashion Council who run the whole shebang, saying that it's not their place......

The man who cut his wrists in Malcolm Rifkind's Chelsea office before trying to daub slogans on the walls with his own blood, has been found guilty of criminal damage. For the two or three people who haven't heard this incredibly bit of important news yet: Lindsay Lohan had her handbag half inched at Heathrow airport. It contained a ton of diamonds and some asthma medication. Pete Doherty has put in a request to......

Workers on the DLR are to be balloted for strikes after a row over pay. Despite the recent rain it looks like we're still in a bit of a drought. A collection of Albert Einstein's papers will go on sale next month for around £800,000. A new Damien Hirst staue, the Virgin Mother, has been unveiled at the Royal Academy of Arts. It's 35ft tall. Kate Moss has beaten up Doherty at his London......

If you were a crack addled, talentless bit of tabloid fodder and you wanted to set up a clandestine meeting with possibly the world's most recognisable supermodel, where would you go? A low key greasy spoon in Wood Green perhaps? Or maybe the 'large print' section of Balham lbrary? You see, you're just not thinking like a media star. If you're Pete Doherty and Kate Moss and you want to keep things on the......

A protest will take place outside the Danish embassy this weekend, over the controversial cartoons printed in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The London borough with more speed cameras than any other is....(drumroll)...Croydon. The jury is out in the trial of Former Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown, who's charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine. Kate Moss has flown out of the UK, possibly never to return. Apparently she's thinking of buying a mansion in Malibu. Well......

There've been a few changes to the plans for the Olympic Park, in order to save on so many jobs and premises being relocated. Wembley now has a 70% chance of being completed in time for the FA Cup. The Heathrow Terminal 5 workers will start a 3 day strike today. Kate Moss has decided to come home, she'll be back at end of this week to make a 'full and frank' confession apparently (meanwhile,......

In the past few days a row has broken out between Britain and Russia over claims that our secret service used a covert transmitter disguised as a rock (pictured) to pass messages to agents. We here at Londonist are always eager to get to the bottom of these major stories, and it was with that aim in mind that we tracked down the rock in question (codename: Rocky) and conducted the following exclusive interview:......

London is to get an extra £22 million next year to tackle climate change and improve the environment. My Pal the Psychopath says today's Sun, describing the "astonishing video"of George Galloway in a 20-minute meeting with Saddam Hussein's son Uday in an Iraqi palace. It's not all work, work, work: police charge the ex-assistant manager of the Wandsworth high street branch of Lloyds TSB with corruption and theft as part of a two year investigation......