Public art
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
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
‘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
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
Rome introduces Trevi Fountain tourist fee
Visitors to Rome will now pay to access the famous fountain and five other historic monuments
Trump eyes site near National Mall for ‘Garden of American Heroes’
The location, although not yet official, would legally require the project to undergo a rigorous review process and receive congressional approval
Hurvin Anderson and Caroline Walker to show new works on London Underground
The works form part of the 2026 Art on the Underground programme, which turns London into a vast public art gallery
Public art installation marks anniversary of New Orleans terrorist attack
Featuring more than 800 flags commemorating the 15 victims, the temporary installation “Second Line in the Sky” offers locals and visitors alike a space to reflect and heal
Theaster Gates to create giant frieze for Obama Presidential Center
The artist will celebrate Black Chicago using photo archives from Jet and Ebony magazines
Following controversy, all names will be left off Canadian monument to ‘victims of communism’
More than half the names originally planned to be inscribed on the Ottawa monument have been linked to Nazis





























