Public art

Trump layoffs leave more than 26,000 government-owned artworks in limbo

Nearly half the art and historic preservation workers at the General Services Administration have been put on leave and are expected to be terminated

Washington, DC demolishes Black Lives Matter mural and plaza

The street mural, just steps from the White House, is being removed after a Republican legislator threatened to withhold federal funding for DC unless the area was renamed "Liberty Plaza"

Booksreview

Review | ‘An utterly positive and dangerously irrelevant’ book written by the chief executive of Arts Council England

This journey through the UK’s publicly funded arts carefully averts its eyes from the many signs of crisis

Roman mural outlining the chain of violence against women will be restored for International Women's Day

The artists Marina Biagini and Elisa Caracciolo will work with members of the community to restore their poignant public memorial

On Parade: Berwick-upon-Tweed communities go up in lights, ten times life size, on historic Hawksmoor building

Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects border town's diverse community back to itself as National Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.5m grant for restoration of Berwick barracks as arts centre

Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this autumn following $82m expansion

The new seven-storey, 61,930 sq. ft building will effectively double the museum’s gallery space

Lawsuit to halt demolition of Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden claims it is a protected ‘physical and social sculpture’

Activists say the Visual Artist Rights Act covers the garden, which the city wants to destroy to make way for affordable mixed-use housing

Coco Fusco skywriting on Los Angeles's billboards

The artist's poetic texts are appearing in the sky around the city, on digital billboards

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates revived, in exhibition and augmented reality, 20 years later

An AR experience in Central Park and a show at The Shed bring the sprawling Land art installation in Central Park back to life

Artists and scientists join forces for Finland climate crisis project

Climate Clock will see a permanent public art trail installed in the city of Oulu

Nuevo museo traza la plural herencia muralista de México

El Museo Vivo del Muralismo se encuentra en la antigua sede de la Secretaría de Educación en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

New museum in Mexico’s capital chronicles the country’s rich mural heritage

Museo Vivo del Muralismo includes works by greats such as Diego Rivera in a building that is a Unesco World Heritage Site

Exhibitionsinterview

Gabriel Orozco: ‘I work internationally while always maintaining ties with my country’

One of Mexico’s most influential contemporary artists, who is also at the helm of the transformation of a public park in Mexico City, discusses his life and work on the occasion of a showcase at Museo Jumex

Restored mural by Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner unveiled in Mexico

The work at the Museo Regional Michoacano Dr Nicolás León Calderón was obscured behind a false wall for decades

President Trump revives plans for sculpture park dedicated to ‘American heroes’

Statues of George Washington and Frederick Douglass will join those of more contemporary heroes like celebrity chef Julia Child and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek

Railroads of the American West provide the subjects, sounds and instruments in new musical performance

The artists and composers Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo will debut the final movement in their collaborative performance and graphic musical score

New Orleans triennial positions the city as a model for a precarious, adaptive future

The sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans, co-curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, finds artists looking to the distant past, urgent present and possible futures for archetypes of resilience

Mary Miss and Des Moines Art Center settle lawsuit over Land art piece's demolition

The artist had sought to force the museum to repair her 1996 outdoor installation, while the institution claimed it could only afford to tear it down

Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush, hidden in plain sight for 52 years, is marked and restored

Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the environment

Miami Advice: Reginald O’Neal on the Purvis Young mural that has always stayed with him

Continuing last year’s popular series, throughout Art Basel Miami Beach we are speaking to members of the local art scene about their favourite cultural destinations around Miami

How Craig Robins became a collector with an eye to the future, seen through the prism of the past

The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari

Tusk tusk: couple gets a hard time over animal instincts atop Miami sculpture

Sex on the beach is the elephant in the room in Miami, where a couple has given a new meaning to public art

Artist Jen Stark brings her kaleidoscopic imagery to her hometown with Miami outdoor installation

The artist invites visitors to dive into a playful space on the historic Española Way and become part of her work

US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol

With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city

Hew Locke to ‘disrupt’ statue of Belgium monarch who oversaw brutal Congo regime

The British-Guyanese artist will place five masts in front of the depiction of Leopold II, whose administration was characterised by “systematic brutality and atrocities”

Sportfeature

The beautiful game? Untangling the tricky relationship between art and football

The sport has a rich historical connection to visual culture but a new trend to immortalise the living presents interesting challenges

Indigenous mound in St Louis is transferred to the Osage Nation

Along with the land transfer, the city of St Louis acknowledged the Osage Nation’s tribal sovereignty and their ancestral rights to the site

New public art partnership will link New York and Toronto

The forthcoming Lassonde Art Trail is teaming up with both the Public Art Fund and York University’s L.L. Odette Sculptor in Residence programme