Public art
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
‘An unsatisfying status quo’: art centre can neither demolish artist Mary Miss’s outdoor installation nor be forced to repair it, judge rules
Stalemate in the dispute over the fate of Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa
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”
The outdoor art not to miss in Manhattan during Frieze New York
From The High Line to Marcus Garvey Park, the borough is buzzing with exciting public works
Newly unveiled statue of Queen Elizabeth II and her corgis splits opinion
The memorial by Hywel Brân Pratley is situated in the town of Oakham, UK
Dindga McCannon mural unveiled at Rikers Island
The work's brightly coloured positivity stands in sharp contrast to the notorious reputation of the prison where it is installed
Thomas Heatherwick’s controversial Vessel public art piece in New York to reopen
The 150ft-tall, $200m outdoor installation at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development has been closed since 2021 following a series of suicides
The Week in Art podcast | Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting
Looking back at the history of the pioneering dealership in post-war art, plus a thought-provoking new installation in Madison Square Park and Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula
Nora Turato projects the art of self-improvement in Chicago
The artist will project a new commission onto the exterior of what was once the world’s biggest building as part of Art on the Mart
JR punches a tunnel through Milan’s central railway station in latest optical illusion
The street artist’s new public art commission coincides with Milan Design Week
US federal judge halts demolition of Land art environment
A temporary restraining order against the Des Moines Art Center after artist Mary Miss sued to block the dismantling of her outdoor work
Salvation for artist’s apocalyptic prophecy house
Isaiah Robertson's house covered in kaleidoscopic assemblages in Niagara Falls, New York, to open to the public as an art destination and community gathering space
Artist Mary Miss sues US art centre to block demolition of her Land art environment
Municipal officials recently approved the Des Moines Art Center’s plans to demolish “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”
Velázquez-inspired sculptures spark outrage in Venice
Local heritage group decries the "biennialisation of the city" after gallery paid a fee to stage the Manolo Valdés installation
Jeffrey Gibson and Jennie C. Jones will transform the Metropolitan Museum's outdoor spaces in 2025
The artists' forthcoming façade and rooftop installations at the museum will explore the intersections of identity and art history
‘Largest Black public art project in the US’ to launch in Los Angeles this spring
Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community
Santa Monica Art Bank and California African American Museum make opening-day acquisitions at Frieze Los Angeles
Sculpture by Mustafa Ali Clayton and textile Gary Tyler enter collections
Back-to-front Ford Ranger takes truck nuts to a new level at Frieze Los Angeles
Vehicle created by the artist Pippa Garner has fairgoers rubbernecking at Santa Monica airport
Emirati artists create public sculpture together after refusing to compete for the commission
Five artists collaborated on the sculpture, which has been unveiled outside Dubai's Etihad Museum
‘Shame on those that silence artists’: Shahzia Sikander speaks out after her opening in Texas is cancelled
The University of Houston seems to have caved to the threats of a local anti-abortion group
‘Anti-monumental’ works shortlisted for next Fourth Plinth commission in London's Trafalgar Square
Proposals by Veronica Ryan and Thomas J. Price include a sweet potato and woman’s head
Preserving Banksy: public art database to document the UK’s murals
The project, backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will also capture many of Northern Ireland's politically charged street art works
London's Barbican to be wrapped in pink and purple in new commission by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama
Purple Hibiscus will be unveiled in April as part of a new exhibition at the gallery
When Sister Rosetta met Marsha P. Johnson: public art piece in London reimagines Leonardo’s Last Supper
Tavares Strachan’s monument is included in major colonialism survey at the Royal Academy