Our monuments should be radically relabelled or repurposed to better represent who we are today, says former British Museum director Neil MacGregor

Sound piece at site where William Huskisson sculpture was brought down is part of citywide Statues Redressed project

Right-wing commentator says he is "tired of this endless conversation about the UK's complicity with slavery"

The monuments were torn down during Canada Day celebrations, which marks the country's confederation

Fans of Peter Falk and his dishevelled but dogged investigative persona have been quick to get behind the idea

The Colombian ministry of culture says it will form a committee to review contested memorials

A unanimous vote by the New York City Public Design Commission has cleared the way for the controversial statue’s removal to a new home dedicated to the former US president

Former UK shadow home secretary led protests at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton, which reopened to the public at the weekend

Visitors to M Shed display asked to give feedback about the future of the sculpture

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

"Independence cuts both ways," UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden warns museums and heritage bodies

Thomas Price and Jeannette Ehlers are in the running for public art piece honouring Caribbean pioneers

Citing the discovery of animal skulls and horns, researchers suggest that mustatils may have had a religious purpose

Archaeologists fear the structural changes aimed to improve access to the Unesco site will “dramatically” change its form

The anti-racist group White Lies Matter had threatened to use the monument to Jefferson Davis as a toilet, but turned over the work unharmed

Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams’s testament to the bravery of children facing difficult illnesses has been created using pieces that record every procedure, test or jab of a needle they undergo

A group calling themselves White Lies Matter demands that the United Daughters of the Confederacy hang a banner critiquing white supremacy before they will return the ornate stone chair

Independence of museums and heritage bodies is at risk, say Ed Vaizey and Chris Smith, as Johnson’s government pushes ‘anti-woke’ agenda

Commercial galleries, non-essential retail, and even gyms have been given the green light to open before museums under the UK government's "roadmap" to lift coronavirus restrictions

“Retain and explain” or restrain and refrain? Culture chiefs raise the alarm on government’s policy to keep problematic statues ahead of crucial meeting

Lawmakers introduced a bill last month to honour the country singer’s contributions to the state

The city-formed advisory committee is now asking for public feedback on the works, as well as considering proposals for new monuments

Opponents argue that some public statues reinforce racism, chauvinism, sexism and homophobia

New 15-member body will focus on the capital’s statues, street names and memorials

The decision to take down historic William Beckford and John Cass sculptures could go against new UK government policy

The UK communities secretary Robert Jenrick's plans to prevent the removal of controversial monuments reveals his inability to view the past as shifting and complex

Artist’s campaign and petition prompted dismantling of ‘Emancipation Group’ piece—but original still stands in Washington DC

The abstract sound sculpture, the first commission for a fifth plinth in Collins Park, will emit recordings of women speaking maternal affirmations, reminders and critiques

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

Sculpture by Maggi Hambling is the result of a decade-long campaign to honour the 18th-century women's rights advocate