Memorials
Khaleb Brooks wins commission for London’s transatlantic slavery memorial
London Mayor backs new work, which will be unveiled in 2026, with £500,000 funding
UK government commits to building national Holocaust memorial in London
Keir Starmer’s Labour administration is reintroducing a bill that will allow the monument and accompanying learning centre to be built, after the project was challenged in the courts
Berlin memorial to Sinti and Roma Holocaust victims under threat from planned tunnel
A campaign has been launched to protect the Dani Karavan-designed monument
Newly unveiled statue of Queen Elizabeth II and her corgis splits opinion
The memorial by Hywel Brân Pratley is situated in the town of Oakham, UK
Israeli music festival that Hamas attacked on 7 October is re-created in New York exhibit
An immersive exhibition brings the Nova Music Festival’s campgrounds—including tents and burned-out cars—to Lower Manhattan
Five artists shortlisted to create London’s first ever permanent HIV/Aids memorial
Anya Gallaccio and Diana Puntar are among those who have submitted proposals for the work, which will reportedly be unveiled in 2026
Statue of Queen Elizabeth II and her corgis to be unveiled in UK
The work pre-empts an official memorial in the pipeline overseen by the Royal Household and the UK government
Will the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square be reserved for a statue of Queen Elizabeth II?
Questions raised about the fate of the capital’s most prominent platform for contemporary art
Statue of George Floyd in Union Square vandalised for second time
The sculpture, previously targeted by white supremacists in Brooklyn, was splattered with paint less than two days after it was installed in Manhattan
Police appeal for information after Kansas City's 7ft-tall bronze statue of Native American woman disappears into thin air
Memorial sculpture, valued at $80,000, may have been stolen so the metal could be sold to a scrapyard
Director of slavery memorial in Guadeloupe sacked after reporting €420,000 missing from museum’s budget
Laurella Yssap-Rincon had promised to “correct the mismanagement” of the culture centre when she took the position in 2019
Monuments of European colonisers are vandalised and toppled in Colombia
The Colombian ministry of culture says it will form a committee to review contested memorials
As 'mountains of corpses' wash up on Tunisian shores, artist Rachid Koraichi builds burial site for migrants
Memorial and graveyard designed by Algerian artist will be used to bury the unidentified bodies of those who have tried and failed to cross the sea
From the archive | world’s oldest war memorial may have been identified in Syria
The White Monument at Tell Banat contains the bones of what are believed to be around 30 dead soldiers, posed as if they fell in battle
France's planned slavery memorial on hold over debate about naming 200,000 freed slaves
Shortlisted proposals by artists including Adrian Piper, Julien Creuzet and duo Sammy Baloji and Emeka Ogboh did not adequately adhere to the requirements, campaign group says
Babyn Yar: site where 100,000 victims were shot by Nazis to get one of world’s largest Holocaust memorial centres
“We do not want to create a big building that sits heavily” on this sensitive ground, says Robert Jan Van Pelt, one of the minds behind the project in Ukraine
UK government announces new laws to protect controversial historic monuments from 'woke worthies and baying mobs'
Proposed plans have been criticised as distraction tactics from the state's "lethally failed response to the pandemic and the consequences of a disastrous Brexit"
People see only 'silver tits' and 'bouffant pubes' now—but I predict Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture will become widely admired
One of the iron rules of art history is that the more derided a work of art at first, the more celebrated it will become
Twitter explodes with debate around long-awaited statue of feminist trailblazer Mary Wollstonecraft
Sculpture by Maggi Hambling is the result of a decade-long campaign to honour the 18th-century women's rights advocate
In honour of Armistice Day, more than 100 English war memorials listed as sites of historical importance
Monuments commemorating the First and Second World Wars—mostly built in small towns and villages—are added to Historic England's list of protected places
Petition launched to replace Confederate monument in South Carolina with statue of actor Chadwick Boseman
Many say he "opened doors" for black people in the arts and artists like Toyin Ojih Odutola have created works honouring the the 43-year-old Black Panther actor, who died last week
Germany's Holocaust memorial sites fight against surge in far-right threats
Former concentration camps are being increasingly drawn into culture wars by “normal-looking” people challenging guides and disrupting tours
'Intrusive addition': Antony Gormley’s memorial to mathematician Alan Turing draws fire
Some critics support the proposed sculpture for Cambridge University while others question the competition process
Memorialising an American tragedy
Survivors, artists and lawmakers debate if public memorials to mass shootings in the US hurt more than they help
From the archive | ‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year
Battered London tomb of the great French tightrope walker Blondin restored
The 19th-century daredevil is most famous for crossing Niagara Falls 17 times—once with a stove on which he cooked an omelette
Doris Salcedo's army of women reshape the meaning of guerrilla weapons
Some of the 15,000 women who were raped or sexually assaulted during the 53-year war in Colombia are telling their stories through a new memorial
Public sculpture will commemorate Chattanooga lynching victim 100 years on
Memorial part of push for new works that challenge history of white supremacy in the US
Kiluanji Kia Henda: The right way to fill a city’s plinths
The Frieze Artist Award winner brings an Angolan take on the public sculpture debate
German parliament approves plan for unification memorial in Berlin
“Unity seesaw” is to be unveiled in 2019 in front of the city palace