Public art

Ai Weiwei calls out Trump’s divisiveness and ‘super rich people’ at Cooper Union talk

The artist discussed the impetus behind his New York City-wide public art project Good Fences Makes Good Neighbors

Censored 'sexual' sculpture finds new home at the Centre Pompidou

Domestikator piece was withdrawn by the Louvre from its surrounding gardens

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park launches $115m expansion

The successful $115m capital campaign for the Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed project includes funds for future acquisitions

Whitney makes the case for David Hammons’s ‘ghost monument’ on the Hudson River

The museum presented its proposal for the public work at a community board meeting Wednesday night—and early reactions were positive

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Kiluanji Kia Henda: The right way to fill a city’s plinths

The Frieze Artist Award winner brings an Angolan take on the public sculpture debate

Judith Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles to get even greater

The artist plans to expand her immigrant-rich visual history of California with protest imagery from the 1960s

Female artists get the word out on political action with Times Square project

Artists Carrie Mae Weems and Wangechi Mutu have created new works for the show

Sam Durant’s Scaffold to be buried, not burned

Dakota elders have decided the fate of the controversial sculpture

Artist brings 50 US flags from 50 states to New York

For his travelling project, Mel Ziegler exchanged old flags—from private homeowners, a National Guard office and even a casino—for new ones

Atlanta's falcon has landed

The new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta is home to a massive falcon sculpture

Winter Whiteout is coming—to Madison Square Park with art installation

Artist Erwin Redl will blanket the park’s Oval Lawn with an installation of suspended lights

From the archive | the story behind the ‘controversial’ Picasso sculpture that became a symbol of Chicago

When it was first unveiled 50 years ago in the city centre, the monumental "homely" figure was not beloved by all

Folkestone Triennial returns to the Kentish coast

The town has been slowly blossoming into a hub for art since the establishment of the triennial, and the fourth edition hopes to continue this trend

Giuseppe Penone unveils Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art

The luxury fashion brand Fendi commissioned the new work, installed outside its flagship boutique

Have bike, will empower: Tania Bruguera launches public art initiative CycleNews in Corona

For the project, women will hit the streets of Queens on bicycles to inform the immigrant-rich community of their rights and helpful government services

Madison Square Park to turn into a ‘utopia’ of public art and performance this summer

Artist Josiah McElheny is partnering with musicians, dancers and poets for the project Prismatic Park

The fate of Alexander Calder’s Universe hangs in the balance

Monumental mobile is leaving the lobby of Chicago’s Willis Tower to be put in storage

Sophie Calle gets a new haunt: Green-Wood cemetery

French artist to present a deeply personal 25-year project with Creative Time

Replica of statue destroyed by Isis and whipped cream to top London’s Fourth Plinth

Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson announced as winners of the next two sculptural commissions for Trafalgar Square

Confronting the landscape: Doug Aitken’s Mirage in the California desert

The artist has created a mirrored ranch-style ‘house’ for the exhibition Desert X

Creative Time appoints Elvira Dyangani Ose as senior curator

In an early interview, the Goldsmiths lecturer and independent curator hints at what she plans to achieve in New York

New York to get its own Fourth Plinth competition on the High Line

Twelve artists have been shortlisted for the first two commissions for large-scale public art on the elevated park

Liz Glynn brings turn-of-the-century grandeur to Central Park with her open-air ballroom

The Los Angeles-based sculptor is also in the spotlight next month with a show of Rodin-inspired works at Paula Cooper Gallery

Underground art: the public works that are part of New York’s $100bn infrastructure plan

At MoMA, governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the state’s projects, including pieces by Sarah Sze, Chuck Close and Vik Muniz

Tasmanian collector David Walsh unveils his vision for an Aboriginal art park on Hobart’s waterfront

The culture complex at Macquarie Point will include a history centre, fire and light installations, and a contemporary art gallery

British artist Idris Khan creates UAE’s first war memorial

This product of the country’s first war stresses the unity of the seven emirates

Thomas Heatherwick steps up to the challenge of creating a centrepiece for Hudson Yards redevelopment

The British designer unveiled his hive-like staircase structure to be installed in a new public square on the West Side of Manhattan

Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant create reflective works for historic sites in Massachusetts

The two-year project Art and the Landscape brings socially conscious contemporary art to colonial locations

Louder than words: on the Language of Things at City Hall Park

The show offers all visitors a chance to consider some serious ideas

Silent soldiers across the UK mark Battle of the Somme in poignant live art piece

Jeremy Deller organised the countrywide performance made up of more than 1,400 volunteers