Art on Location 2025

Sea State: restored Norfolk mansion puts on water-themed exhibition by Maggi Hambling and Ro Robertson

The owners of Wolterton Hall, a former home of the Walpole family, acquire sculpture by Robertson to be first work in the collection to be exhibited outside

‘Creating their own ecosystem’: Arts Council gives backing to collaboration between artists in rural Gloucestershire

The Hide, an artist retreat in the Cotswolds, southwest England, with an annual sculpture showcase, is a grassroots project that is gathering momentum

London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis

Vivienne Schadinsky, artist-in-residence at OmVed Gardens, in north London has used the two-acre plot as a “living laboratory” to make ink paintings, films, sculptures and prints devoted to beans and their ecology

Ancient art on wheels: how Mumbai's leading museum is sending miniature exhibitions by bus into the Indian countryside

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

Towering ambition: the Swiss artist Not Vital's Alpine playground

The multidisciplinary artist mixes nature, architecture and art to grand effect at his foundation’s three locations: a castle, a sculpture park and a 17th-century house

The power of transformation: an immersive, thrillingly layered, journey into William Kentridge’s sculpture

The polymathic, multifarious, South African artist plays creative games with scale, indoor and out, in "The Pull of Gravity", a multi-decade survey at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

The magic of Troy Hill—a series of unique whole house art installations in Pittsburgh

Inspired by a visit to Naoshima art island in Japan, a US collector has commissioned a compelling group of site-specific installations

Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

In the UK, Hauser & Wirth, Messums, Willoughby Gerrish and other galleries have embraced the potential of unique rural sites

Gallery lures collectors to Spain’s abandoned region with large-scale sculpture trail

The sprawling sculpture trail is the latest initiative by Albarrán Bourdais, a project that is filling Matarraña, the country’s least populated area, with architecture

Rachel Whiteread in a West Sussex woodland: UK’s Goodwood Art Foundation opens

The Duke of Richmond launches a non-profit 70-acre home to contemporary art on his estate to offer all ages the educational and health benefits of art, in a seasonally shifting plot of South Downs woodland

How to see every painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ‘The Last Supper’ to two versions of ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’

Boston Public Art Triennial launches with more than a dozen projects across the city

Works at the inaugural triennial entreat locals and visitors alike to imagine new ways of understanding our world