Public art

Shahzia Sikander says she will not fix statue that was beheaded in Houston

In a Washington Post op-ed, the artist wrote she wants to leave the sculpture damaged to show the “fissures in our country”

Giant pigeon sculpture will land on New York's High Line this autumn

Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October

I am Discosailing: Rasheed Araeen's water ballet comes to east London's outdoor sculpture trail, The Line

The artist's 1970s concept, brought to life in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, invites the public to perform as a floating sculpture moving with the wind and water

The 15-ton itch: truce reached in battle over giant Marilyn Monroe sculpture in Palm Springs

The city council has worked out a tentative agreement to move the lightning rod of a sculpture

Tree-planting project memorialising Black lives lost brings 40,000 trees to urban centres across the US

The community-driven living monument from MIT Media Lab’s Poetic Justice will include an evolving, digitally networked story archive

‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land

At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis and Shane Perley-Dutcher are part of a push to advocate for environmental and social justice

‘An act of violent aggression’: Anne Imhof billboards destroyed in Austria

Works bearing the phrase “Wish You Were Gay” have been vandalised in the city of Bregenz

New public art projects to coincide with Democratic National Convention

Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid

$11m worth of public art at the LA Clippers' new arena

Charles Gaines, Refik Anadol, Glenn Kaino and four other renowned artists with local connections were chosen to create some monumental works in Inglewood

A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists

The Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego is launching an emerging artist programme with a trio of new commissions

Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display

The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September

New beginnings for public art programme at Newfields

More than a decade after it opened, the art and nature park at the Indianapolis institution has $3m in new funding and its first new show

Artist Pat Oleszko leads climate-themed Pride performance aboard New York’s Staten Island Ferry

The artist and a cast of collaborators staged a colourful cautionary performance about the environment on the popular ferry

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Calling festival goers to Gate 35—new airport installation takes off at Glastonbury

Artist Jordan Watson has created a Terminal experience exploring immigration

Hottest Abe: wax statue of Lincoln loses its head amid US heat wave

The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave

Oyster sculptures and whale songs: exhibition on Governors Island explores the role of extraction in climate change

Jenny Kendler’s multidisciplinary project seeks kinship between humans and other animals

The Indigenous artist brightly patching up a Toronto expressway

Nico Williams has created a series of colourful interventions along an elevated highway that cuts through the city centre

Agnes Denes resurrects famous ‘Wheatfield’ work in Montana

Sowing seeds of sustainable development, the artist has planted a version of her celebrated Land art piece in booming Bozeman, Montana

Anya Gallaccio wins commission for London’s first ever HIV/Aids memorial

The winning proposal features a tree trunk from which rings have been extracted and displayed nearby

In pictures: Art Basel's Parcours takes over the high street

Stefanie Hessler, the new curator for the fair's outdoor section, picks out her highlights along the city's Clarastrasse

Would you Adam and Eve it? Michael Landy’s new public art piece brings Cockney Rhyming Slang alive

Signs on show across London’s East Bank highlight the endangered rhyming dialect

‘Iron fist in a velvet glove’: Detroit public sculpture tracks air quality and cleans the polluted environment

A new regenerative installation by Jordan Weber raises awareness of environmental racism

Lauren Halsey to create outdoor sculpture park in South Central, Los Angeles

In addition to the temporary sculpture park, Halsey will open a community centre in 2026 through her non-profit Summaeverythang

US city cancels artist's residency over pro-Palestine painting

Native American artist Danielle SeeWalker had turned down several opportunities to accept a residency in the upscale resort town of Vail

'Empty promises': art on Queens College campus in New York has languished in damaged state for decades

Staff allege that ongoing systemic issues have left the institution's art collection at risk—well before the City University of New York system could blame it all on lack of public funding

Virginia Overton creates new public work for Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refinery

The Brooklyn-based artist has created an abstract wall sculpture for the building’s lobby using parts of the old factory’s iconic yellow sign

Meat me in Times Square: artists create giant 65ft-long hot dog sculpture for the New York plaza

Project by Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw is a “tongue-in-cheek tribute to and critique of all that the hot dog has come to symbolise”