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"
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
Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial launches second phase with nine new installations throughout the emirate
The first edition of the exhibition brings work by over 70 artists to the streets of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain
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
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
Nina Surel’s ceramic symbol of Florida acquired for Miami Beach’s collection at Art Basel
The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme
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”
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