Public art
Hank Willis Thomas covers US Justice Department with thousands of words from inmates
Launched last night, the guerilla intervention is the latest public work in Washington, DC to address structural racism—but can art effect change?
Are Saudi Arabia's big culture plans turning to dust?
As oil prices slump and the pandemic continues to spread, the kingdom's ambitious initiatives are being scaled back
A patchwork of personal messages responding to Covid-19 could be displayed across the National Mall in Washington, DC
'Victimised and rejected': new work explores the history of artists working in New York and the need for public art
Julia Weist's project embedded in the New York public records reveals the uneven relationship between the city and its creatives
Sculpture confronting Germany's colonial past installed at Berlin’s long-awaited Humboldt Forum
Kang Sunkoo’s bronze Statue of Limitations shows a black flag at half-mast
It's lit: Tavares Strachan delivers a mountain message of social activism amid social distancing
'Intrusive addition': Antony Gormley’s memorial to mathematician Alan Turing draws fire
Some critics support the proposed sculpture for Cambridge University while others question the competition process
Art world figures protest plan to dismantle sculptural installation in Washington, DC
Arrangement of boulders around reflecting pool on National Geographic Society campus is cited as a landscape art masterpiece
Tristram Hunt: 'When the lights come back on, our museums will need support'
What coronavirus is really forcing us to address is the societal function and justification for public culture in the 21st century, says the Victoria and Albert Museum's director
Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture—a giant swirl of whipped cream topped with a drone and fly—delayed by coronavirus
Heather Phillipson’s subversive work was to replace Michael Rakowitz’s recreation of a protective deity destroyed by Islamic State
Sydney Biennale puts climate emergency and Indigenous struggle front and centre
Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks
Maya Lin will plant a ‘ghost forest’ in New York
A series of spectral trees will populate Madison Square Park this summer in the artist's latest project addressing climate change
Carousel in Frankfurt to recall the Kindertransport that saved thousands of children from the Nazis
Yael Bartana's public sculpture commemorates those who were shipped out before the Second World War
As debate rages around controversial US monuments, New York park invites artists to make their own
The year-long programme Monuments Now at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens aims to evaluate ideas around public art
'We must stop memorialising such a dark part of our history': official stance on Confederate monuments is shifting
Memorials honouring controversial generals continue to stir debate in many Southern states, but lawmakers are finding creative ways to deal with them
Antony Gormley's monumental work in New York looks for human connection during 'an absolute fucking disaster'
The project in Brooklyn Bridge Park is a commission of BTS Connect, an international public arts initiative funded by the Korean boyband
Living refugees of civil war honoured in New York public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko
The artist hopes to transform an existing monument with contemporary experiences so there will be “no more need for new war memorials”
Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier creates a ‘class-warfare’ debate in Vancouver
Installation in gentrified area is criticised as artists are priced out of the city's housing market
Image mocking Australian Prime Minister's Hawaiian holiday raises A$50,000 for fire service
Scott Marsh’s mural on a wall in Sydney was painted over
William Kentridge’s existential imagery takes over Times Square
The artist sees his midnight billboard installation as “a bit of brain surgery” in “the deep soul of late capitalism”
Andy Goldsworthy’s Walking Wall unites and delights in Kansas City
The artist’s fragmented installation for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has completed its trek through time and space
Lublin governor files defamation suit against art historian sparking free speech fears in Poland
Case against Tomasz Kitliński follows row over installation that marked pogrom sites in the city
First section of Miami’s $100m Underline public art park to open in summer 2020
The ten-mile project will transform a track of land under the Miami Metrorail into a public recreation area
Public Art Fund adds four new members to its board, including Ai Weiwei
Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard Murphy also join the nonprofit to help bring more free arts programming to New York City
A stampede of one: plans to move lower Manhattan’s Charging Bull sculpture raises furore
The artist and city officials are at odds over the famous work’s removal from the heavily trafficked site it has occupied for 30 years
Antony Gormley in talks with French government over sculpture project in Brittany
Brexit is a disaster for the UK, says the sculptor as he unveils his Field for the British Isles installation at Firstsite gallery in Colchester
Maya Lin’s Eclipsed Time clock removed from New York transit hub after 25 years
The artist’s long-neglected sculpture has been removed as Penn Station undergoes renovations
Boston’s Brutalist government center building scheduled for destruction—without a plan to save its treasured mural
Preservationists are mourning the imminent loss as art historians plea for the safety of an important Constantino Nivola painting
Street artist paints ginormous portrait of eco warrior Greta Thunberg in San Francisco
Cobre defends use of spray paint in creating eight-storey mural, saying his materials are environmentally friendly
‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year