Public art
'Hastily disguised telephone mast': Thomas Heatherwick’s Trees sculpture at Buckingham Palace in London divides opinions
The work, commissioned for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, celebrates local communities
London's Elizabeth Line finally opens—we take a look at the ambitious art commissions across the train stations of the £19bn project
Yayoi Kusama, Sonia Boyce and Richard Wright are among the artists who have created works for the 10 brand-new stations
The artist encouraging New Yorkers to empathise with their trash
Artist Sto Len is using his residency with the New York City sanitation department to call attention to citizens' attitudes about trash
A mushroom cloud rises over Times Square in latest iteration of anti-nukes art project
Artist Pedro Reyes is turning heads with an installation that evokes a nuclear explosion at the centre of Manhattan, and serving as a backdrop for talks and performances
In one of UK’s largest art commissioning programmes, 22 artists receive £2.5m to explore the impact of war
Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson among those selected to create new works through Imperial War Museums' 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund
Within hours of its unveiling, controversial Margaret Thatcher statue in Lincolnshire pelted with eggs
The bronze work was initially to be installed at the Houses of Parliament in London
Enormous mural on California dam may be removed after attempts to secure legal protections fail
The 80,000 sq. ft ‘Bicentennial Freedom Mural’ was marked for removal due to levels of lead in the paint used to make it and its deteriorating condition
Ukraine demolishes Kyiv monument symbolising friendship with Russia
The titanium People’s Friendship Arch above the statue will remain but be renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People
Divisive airplane installation from Burning Man lands in Las Vegas
The work was criticised and its creators accused of having “abandoned” it on the Black Rock Desert after the 2018 event
Works rescued from dumpster lead to rediscovery of star artist of 1970s New York scene
Francis Hines was a well-known artist most famous for wrapping the Washington Square Park arch in fabric, but after he died in relative obscurity, in 2016, his work was nearly lost forever
Judge rules removal of artwork depicting man killed by police did not violate free speech
The artwork, commissioned a citywide arts event in Miami Beach, commemorated Haitian-American Raymond Herisse, who was killed by police in 2011
Artist-led campaign urges climate action across California
The initiative A Cool Million, launched by three artist-led collectives, features climate-themed public artworks and aims to preserve one million acres
Damien Hirst's 18-metre-high bronze demon to be installed in London
The largest sculpture from the Wreck of the Unbelievable series, originally presented at the 2017 Venice Biennale, will tower over the Thames cable car
Artist sues grocery store chain for unauthorised use of his mural in Super Bowl commercial narrated by Oprah Winfrey
The lawsuit, a re-filing of a case that originated in 2019, revolves around a commercial that prominently features a mural artist Chris Williams made in Des Moines, Iowa
California police officers’ lawsuit over Black Lives Matter mural is dismissed
Six police officers in the Silicon Valley city of Palo Alto claimed the mural was discriminatory, constituted harassment and that they had faced retaliation for speaking out
Pussy Riot member curates US billboard art exhibition to raise awareness of gender pay gap
On the occasion of Women’s History Month, a show of large-scale public art curated by Nadya Tolokonnikova is taking over advertising spaces across the US
Artworks from Ukrainian museum appear as monumental projections in California
The partnership between a Bay Area nonprofit and a museum in Kyiv began shortly before the Russian invasion has taken on new urgency in the days since
US artist Nick Cave to project his dancing ‘Soundsuits’ onto massive building in central Chicago
The large-scale video projection coincides with the opening of Cave’s major solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, which will then travel to the Guggenheim in New York
Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton and other artists to create works for New York's LaGuardia airport
The commissions are part of a $12m art budget for a new terminal at the Queens airport
Calida Rawles’s mural makes waves at Inglewood's new SoFi Stadium
The regal painting of a Black woman floating happily in a swirl of water was finished just in time for Los Angeles Rams Super Bowl win on Sunday
'Totally Kafkaesque': Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs spaces still paralysed by pandemic
Most Los Angeles art institutions have reopened while complying with Covid-19 safety measures—except those run by the city
Betye Saar repaints lost mural at Frieze Los Angeles
The 95-year-old artist was on hand at the fair this week
Biden administration reverses Trump-era restrictions on federal art commissions
In the waning months of his presidency, Donald Trump’s administration imposed a ban on commissioning abstract or modernist art for federal buildings
Frieze cancels Los Angeles fair’s outdoor sculpture show due to shipping delays and labour shortages
Frieze Sculpture Beverly Hills, which was to take place in Beverly Gardens Park and run until May, would have included sculptures from 12 exhibiting galleries
Unlike paintings and sculptures, site-specific art lacks protection under US law
Recent disputes over the dismantling, relocation or recontextualizing of site-specific works have underlined the limited protections for such art
A Mexican millionaire is building a museum to house his art collection, and using public funds to do it
Mauricio Fernández Garza first proposed the structure, which is a replica of his mansion in San Pedro Garza García, near Monterrey, when he was mayor of the well-heeled town
Simone Leigh statue of African deity installed at former site of Confederate monument in New Orleans
Leigh’s sculpture was unveiled at the symbolically charged site in the city centre during the closing weekend of the fifth Prospect New Orleans triennial
Power to the people: London’s new public art gives a glimmer of hope in gloomy times
A colourful playground, giant vegetable sculptures and an elegant etched glass installation have all brightened up the capital this year
Banksy mural 'gifted' to East Anglia town has been sold to private buyer after being removed by the owners
The mural was one of ten works peppered across English seaside towns and could have been street artist's way of raising the area’s profile
Support for controversial Lacma expansion and a new Dred Scott museum: first round of $24.7m US federal culture grants announced
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded 208 grants for projects in most states, Washington, DC, Guam and Canada