Public art
Hélio Oiticica’s unrealised Tropicália environment erected in New York
The Brazilian artist developed the installation and several other iterations of architectural environments on a Guggenheim grant in the 1970s but never secured funding to build the work
Maya Lin to create sculptural fountain for the Obama Presidential Center
The sculpture, “Seeing Through the Universe”, will be installed on the centre’s grounds in an area honouring Barack Obama’s mother
‘Three-metre phallus’: Antony Gormley sculpture with ‘ambiguous anatomy’ falls foul of university students
Imperial College Union has released a motion to prevent the work's installation saying it could be considered "exclusionary"
Chicago’s ten-ton Jean Dubuffet sculpture will be relocated after Google buys building where it has long stood
The tech giant is moving into the Thompson Center, forcing its biggest and oldest tenant—a 29ft-tall Dubuffet—to go elsewhere
Charles Gaines unearths America’s deep colonial roots in an expansive serial public art project
The conceptual artist’s first public project will unfold across three locations over the next two years—beginning in Times Square in New York
Artists fail to win lawsuit over erased murals at San Francisco queer bar
The property owner has been cleared of whitewashing LGBTQ art works at the Stud Bar
Uproar as Philadelphia excludes Black artists from commission process for statue of abolitionist Harriet Tubman
The $500,000 commission was awarded to a white artist whose work had previously been installed near the same site earlier this year
Roadside sculpture in Georgia—which some believed to be a satanic monument—demolished following early-morning bombing
The 16ft-tall structure, sometimes referred to as "America’s Stonehenge", was built in 1980 and inscribed with a ten-part message that may have been meant to help survivors of an apocalyptic event rebuild society
New research reveals that just 2% of named public statues in Britain commemorate people of colour
Major project by Art UK involving 500 volunteers sees 13,500 sculptures from across the UK posted online
A match made in heaven: The Armory Show brings large scale sculptures to the US Open
The sculptures, which will be placed on the grounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the tournament, will all be by artists from underrepresented backgrounds
From Whitechapel to Saudi Arabia: Iwona Blazwick takes up a new post as AlUla public art supremo
Drive to rebrand Middle Eastern country as a cultural destination underpinned by human rights concerns
More than 100 sculptures on slave trade to be unveiled across seven UK cities
Artists including Lakwena Maciver and Godfried Donkor will create work examining colonial history in Britain
Hew Locke reimagines Birmingham's controversial Queen Victoria statue for an anti-imperialist age
A number of artists—including Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Rajni Perera—have created work that challenges the city's colonial legacy as it gears up to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Windrush generation honoured with two new public works in London
Sculptures are unveiled on Windrush Day, which remembers the generation of workers who came by ship to the UK from the Caribbean after the Second World War
Art Gallery of Ontario unveils its first public art commission, an elephantine bronze by Brian Jungen
The massive sculpture, five years in the making, depicts a tragic circus elephant recreated out of trashed leather furniture
William Kentridge calls on UK to find consensus over its ‘shameful past’ like South Africa has with apartheid
Ahead of his major retrospective at the Royal Academy this autumn, South African artist says Britain needs "imaginative solutions" for colonial era statues
Ai Weiwei’s cage sculpture in Stockholm takes on new meaning following war in Ukraine
Work is a “warning and reminder” that world will see more humanitarian crises
Monumental Sanford Biggers sculpture will welcome visitors to Orange County Museum of Art's new home
The sculpture will be installed prominently outdoors at the Southern California museum's new $93m Morphosis-designed building
Lawsuit challenging Trump Tower Black Lives Matter mural is dismissed
The lawsuit was brought by a women’s group that supported former president Trump and had sought to create its own mural near the Manhattan skyscraper
Felt banquet for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is a feast for the eyes
Artist Lucy Sparrow will install her massive felt in picnic spread at Buckingham Palace, while Leo Villareal plans a more contemplative tribute
'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