Public art

Artist Scott Burton honoured in new sculpture at New York’s Aids memorial

Oscar Tuazon’s new commission for the New York City Aids Memorial revisits Burton’s final public work

Edvard Munch’s chocolate factory series shines a light on the public artist he wanted to be

An exhibition in Oslo shows how the Norwegian artist hoped to build on the Freia chocolate factory frieze with even more ambitious work

Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents

The “No Ice in the Cup” campaign is using art to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' planned deployment to the football tournament

‘Fodder for the vain’: Veterans, preservationists and public speak out against Trump’s arch

Despite the vocal testimony against the project, the National Capital Planning Commission voted overwhelmingly in favour of the arch

JR's wrapped Pont Neuf installation in Paris damaged in storm

The opening of the French street artist's newest public work and tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude has now been delayed

Kelly Akashi and friends celebrate Altadena's resilience after Los Angeles wildfires

In a two-day installation and performance, the Los Angeles-based artist examined new growth at the site of her burned-down house and studio

Roberto Lugo brings monumental tribute to Puerto Rican culture to Manhattan park

The artist’s new large-scale sculptures in Madison Square Park pay homage to the island’s diaspora and its most beloved figures

US Commission of Fine Arts approves Trump’s Washington, DC arch despite public opposition

While the public comments about the proposal were said to be 99.5% unfavourable, the commission signed off on the proposed arch with its golden statuary

Final proposals for Billie Holiday monument in New York City revealed

One of the six shortlisted designs, by artists including Tavares Strachan and Thomas J Price, will be chosen this summer and erected at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens

Iván Argote brings roving public art project to Chicago streets

The artist behind New York's beloved pigeon monument will create a mobile project celebrating Latine dignity

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Public art blossoms around New York

From the High Line to Brooklyn Bridge Park, artists are thinking big across the five boroughs

New Museum unveils Sarah Lucas's bawdy Bowery commission

The British artist's playful riff on a reclining nude will hold court at Bowery and Prince Street for two years

Fire erupts at San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain during its dismantling

The controversial San Francisco landmark has met its end after a contentious fight to save it failed

Pedro Reyes’s new Lacma commission sparks criticism in Mexico

Mexican cultural figures say the Olmec-inspired sculpture reprises a work that was previously rejected in Mexico City

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‘She had a fresh, informed eye’: mural depicting late Venice Biennale curator Koyo Kouoh displayed in lagoon city

Derrick Adams’ piece features “beams of gold signifying the brilliance and reach” of the curator’s influence

Towering homage to Bamiyan Buddhas rises over Manhattan’s High Line

For the fifth High Line Plinth commission, the Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has created a 27ft-tall version of the 6th-century Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

Pittsburgh’s new $31m Arts Landing combines public art with civic engagement

The project was completed just in time for the NFL draft and the Carnegie International

Antony Gormley sculpture quietly removed and sold off by UK council

The Reform-run council sold the public work back to the artist for an undisclosed sum

From the World Cup and the Olympics to two new museums: upcoming cultural attractions in Los Angeles

As well as the renovated and expanded Los Angeles County Museum of Art, here are some of the art and culture projects to look forward to

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Olafur Eliasson stages public wake for the Great Salt Lake in Utah

A recent ten-day “symphony of disappearing sounds” brought attention to the fragility of the Western Hemisphere’s largest saltwater lake

The artist who blocked an Ice projectile with her drawing board during protests

Izzy Brourman had been documenting anti-Ice protests in Minneapolis when she became part of the story

Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sends message of ‘preventive peace’ on digital billboards around the world

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities

Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena

The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others

Charity Art UK digitises nearly 7,000 murals across country

The project, launched in 2024, was completed with the help of around 90 “public art volunteers”

Christopher Columbus statue installed on White House grounds

A replica of a monument toppled during protests in 2020 has been erected near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building as Donald Trump frames the explorer as a national hero

Hirshhorn Museum’s revamped sculpture garden will feature new acquisitions by Mark Grotjahn, Lauren Halsey and more

The Smithsonian’s Modern and contemporary art museum in Washington, DC revealed eight recent acquisitions that will be displayed in the garden when it reopens this autumn

Who owns the seas? Shahzia Sikander's new animation on world trade beamed onto M+ museum facade

The Pakistani-American artist uses cartography to show the entwined histories of China, South Asia and Britain

New public art biennial to take over Dallas’s urban greenbelt park

The open-air exhibition KTX Biennial, curated by SculptureCenter’s Jovanna Venegas, will bring works by international contemporary artists to the city’s busy 3.5-mile pedestrian and cycling corridor

Tomás Saraceno and Indigenous communities build art complex in Argentine salt flats

The monumental outdoor environment, “El Santuario del Agua” (The Water Sanctuary), is located in one of the world’s largest lithium reserves

Student design competition for permanent George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis opens

The competition, open to students in Minnesota, is the first step in selecting a permanent memorial to the man whose 2020 murder set of a global reckoning with police brutality and institutional racism