Public art

Trump’s Greenland threats become playable arcade game in satiric collective’s latest public art intervention

The collective Secret Handshake has installed playable arcade rigs featuring its game “Operation Epic Furious: Nuuk ‘Em All” in Washington, DC, and Nuuk, Greenland

Public art on parade in New York City this autumn

New York’s outdoor art landscape is full of surprises this season, from mounds of oysters on Governors Island and bathing birds near City Hall to a towering corn cob on the High Line and a gargantuan teddy bear in Queens

‘It is not a political joke’: Ai Weiwei unveils 500 cast-iron combat helmets in Sydney

Titled “Mushrooms”, the work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia reflects nations’ feeble responses to crises and the artist's uncertainty about the future

Giant Diego Rivera sculpture on Mexico City’s Olympic stadium to be restored

The restoration of Rivera’s work launches a multi-year initiative to preserve public art on the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus

Large-scale projection on Brooklyn Bridge calls attention to marine life off the coast of New York City

The Australian American artist Anita Glesta’s installation will transform the storied overpass for two nights this month to raise awareness of Hudson Canyon’s rich ecosystem

‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self's Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London

The bronze sculpture will move permanently to a private foundation in Fornebu, Norway after its two-year stint in Trafalgar Square

Can triennials reduce their environmental impact? St Louis’s Counterpublic hopes to be a model

The event’s organisers are working to reduce the ecological footprint of temporary exhibitions and will share findings from their 2026 edition in a climate impact report

Hamptons art centre sued over large shipping container sculpture

The town of East Hampton claims Matt Johnson’s 60ft-tall sculpture is a structure built without proper safety permitting

Mamdani administration expected to drop plans to replace popular New York sculpture garden with affordable housing

The Elizabeth Street Garden in Soho appears to have escaped the wrecking ball for good after a decade-long dispute over its future

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UK Ministry of Justice spent more than £85,000 removing Banksy mural from the Royal Courts of Justice

According to the BBC, Westminster council has also spent around £60,000 on security measures for a statue the street artist installed in central London in April

From beavers to basketball hoops: a new public art trail opens in Toronto

The Lassonde Art Trail is part of a $1bn redevelopment project to revitalise the city's relationship with its waterways

Artists visualise environmental fragility and resilience on New York’s Governors Island

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems

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Banksy statue in central London could become permanent as Westminster council deliberates

The statue, which has drawn hordes of onlookers, will remain in St James's for at least the next few weeks, with the council aiming to make a decision on its longevity by the end of summer

Artists’ monumental hot dog sculpture, now with patriotic toppings, returns to Times Square

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding

How Constable country is becoming a hub of artistic innovation once again

Two hundred and fifty years after the birth of its most famous painter, the East of England's art scene has never been so vital

'The Climate Clock is ticking': new art trail in Finland shines a light on rapid Arctic warming

Artists including Rana Begum, SUPERFLEX and Ranti Bam have produced works for the initiative, which is part of the Oulu 2026 European Capital of Culture programme

US congress introduces bill to protect public art in federal buildings targeted by Trump administration

The Preserve Act specifically sites Washington, DC’s Cohen Building—the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”

The small Ohio town getting an Aboriginal art museum and a James Turrell 'Skyspace' installation

New Bremen is home to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks; the company’s chief executive wants to make it ‘the Marfa of the Midwest’

New York’s Cathedral of St John the Divine unveils delicate artistic tribute to city’s unhoused population

Nisha Bansil’s sculpture, made up of more than 50,000 glass ginkgo leaves, draws attention to the city’s more than 100,000 unhoused citizens

Women auto workers who helped inspire UK's Equal Pay Act honoured in east London public sculpture

Made in collaboration with local students, Ruth Ewan's sculpture will mark the beginning of a heritage trail at the redeveloped Dagenham Green site

Fate of historic murals uncertain following Manhattan homeless shelter’s closure

The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled

Lacma's inaugural art parade celebrates new building and Los Angeles creative community

Artists and performers of all kinds flocked to Wilshire Boulevard for the city's first Art Parade

Obama Presidential Center opens, offering an art-filled, hopeful view of US history

The sprawling new campus on Chicago's South Side includes a rousing museum and commissions by Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Richard Hunt, Martin Puryear and many more

Sculpture by Edi Rama, Albania's prime minister, features at Art Basel

The bronze work is presented as part of Parcours, the fair's public art section

In pictures: the best of Art Basel’s city-wide Parcours exhibition

The exhibition's curator, Stefanie Hessler, picks out some of this year's highlights

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