Public sculpture
Colston: Four BLM protestors found not guilty of criminal damage after toppling Bristol slave trader statue
Trial reignited the debate about the value of colonial-era contested monuments and statues
Psychedelic sculpture—an ode to Alice in Wonderland, steampunk and Gothic Revival architecture—to be installed at St Pancras in London next year
Shezad Dawood is the eighth artist to be selected for the Terrace Wires public commission, following in the footsteps of Tracey Emin
Letter | Would you keep public monuments honouring the late Jimmy Savile?
No one would argue that removing statues of the sex criminal is “cancelling culture”, yet this logic is routinely used to defend monuments of slavers, argues one of The Art Newspaper's readers
London museum wants to move controversial slaver statue to 'less prominent space'
Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it
'Humour runs through my work to cope with everything else': Thomas J Price on opera, bleeding tongues and the politics of public statues
The British artist tells us about his favourite books, music and artists on the A brush with… podcast
City of London U-turn on historic statues means slave trader sculptures will stay in place
William Beckford and John Cass figures will be "retained and explained", as recommended by the UK government
Queen Victoria statue defrocked after ex-politician Nigel Farage blasts public art project addressing UK’s slavery history
Right-wing commentator says he is "tired of this endless conversation about the UK's complicity with slavery"
A ghost forest and a predator: New York public art grows a conscience
New sculptures in the city by Maya Lin and Sam Durant are not just pretty
Despite widespread opposition, 'sexist' Marilyn Monroe statue installed next to Palm Springs Art Museum
A number of activist groups are still fighting to relocate the statue, considered to be exploitative and sexist, from outside the museum
Imperialist statue must go: defying college's decision, more than 350 Oxford University academics demand Cecil Rhodes be removed
Oriel College's plan to keep the sculpture of "racist" 19th-century British mining magnate "does not reflect the Oxford we represent", say staff in a letter
Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago
Plus, new proposals for the Fourth Plinth in London and Nike Air Force 1s
Marc Quinn’s BLM protestor statue could be reinstalled on Bristol plinth that held slave trader monument
Sculpture of Edward Colston was pulled down by activists last summer and will now be placed in a museum
Six artists—including Nicole Eisenman and Ibrahim Mahama—shortlisted for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth public art commission
Winning sculptures will go on show in central London in 2022 and 2024
Antony Gormley lends sculpture to fill an empty spot on the medieval façade of Wells Cathedral in England
The near-life-size contemporary work will join 300 historic depictions of saints and kings
Are museums as Covid-risky as saunas? Culture leaders outraged over late reopening of English art spaces
Commercial galleries, non-essential retail, and even gyms have been given the green light to open before museums under the UK government's "roadmap" to lift coronavirus restrictions
Bank of England wades into UK's escalating culture war on controversial monuments, saying it will remove images of slave owners
“Retain and explain” or restrain and refrain? Culture chiefs raise the alarm on government’s policy to keep problematic statues ahead of crucial meeting
Sex toys on the beach? Antony Gormley seaside sculptures—likened to 'vibrators'—fall foul of planning laws
Amid child sexual abuse accusations, Paris authorities turn off Claude Lévêque light sculptures
The French artist is under police investigation over claims that he abused minors under the age of 15
Tearing down troubling statues is not lying about our history—it is removing impediments to truth
The UK communities secretary Robert Jenrick's plans to prevent the removal of controversial monuments reveals his inability to view the past as shifting and complex
UK government announces new laws to protect controversial historic monuments from 'woke worthies and baying mobs'
Proposed plans have been criticised as distraction tactics from the state's "lethally failed response to the pandemic and the consequences of a disastrous Brexit"
Enormous vulva sculpture in Brazil sparks conservative outrage
Juliana Notari's work was installed days after President Bolsonaro vowed to never legalise abortion
People see only 'silver tits' and 'bouffant pubes' now—but I predict Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture will become widely admired
One of the iron rules of art history is that the more derided a work of art at first, the more celebrated it will become
Twitter explodes with debate around long-awaited statue of feminist trailblazer Mary Wollstonecraft
Sculpture by Maggi Hambling is the result of a decade-long campaign to honour the 18th-century women's rights advocate
In honour of Armistice Day, more than 100 English war memorials listed as sites of historical importance
Monuments commemorating the First and Second World Wars—mostly built in small towns and villages—are added to Historic England's list of protected places
Waste of money? New Antony Gormley sculpture in British seaside city rattles residents
Plymouth city council unable to reveal cost of public project after signing confidentiality agreement with the artist
Memorial to police shooting victim Cherry Groce gets £82,000 boost from local London authorities
Brixton sculpture by David Adjaye is due to be unveiled in September, 35 years after a bungled police raid left her paralysed
UK's first statues of black Brits—sited at Brixton station—to be restored after 34 years
The overlooked works are modelled on local residents
Essex’s unlikely sculpture town is set for a renaissance
Built in the wake of the Second World War, Harlow maintains a remarkable collection with pieces by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Rodin
Riga installs six-metre statue to honour medical workers
Sculpture by Latvian artist Aigars Bikse is in a prominent spot in front of the National Museum of Art
What to do about problematic statues?
Plus, Hew Locke on Agostino Brunias's Dancing Scene in the West Indies. Produced in association with Christie's