Public art
Pillar of Shame sculpture seized by police in Hong Kong
Work commemorating Tiananmen Square tragedy is confiscated as part of "incitement to subversion" case
Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy reach for the skies with Chicago airport sculpture
The artists’ installation, featuring two monumental hands reaching out to each other, has been installed at O’Hare International Airport
New works by Charles Ray and Christopher Wool will be public fixtures of Manhattan development
Ray’s large-scale statue of Adam and Eve will beckon visitors into the a plaza while Wool’s enormous mural looms from a glass-enclosed lobby
Damien Hirst’s humongous headless demon dominates the skyline on London's Greenwich Peninsula
The gargantuan piece, which looks up to the Thames cable car, is part of Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable series
A monumental tribute to Jamal Khashoggi unveiled in his home state of Virginia
Artist Navine G. Dossos created a towering, kaleidoscopic mural in tribute to the assassinated journalist at Richmond's Institute for Contemporary Art
Conservation of Chris Burden’s Urban Light and large Warhol Oxidation canvas among projects supported by latest Bank of America grants
In all 23 projects, from Virginia to Hong Kong, are receiving support through the bank's latest round of conservation grants
The Metropolitan Museum’s great hall to be transformed by kaleidoscopic Jacolby Satterwhite video installation
The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection
Derrick Adams’s unicorns are taking over Chicago
In addition to rideable unicorn sculptures at Expo Chicago, the city’s vast projection art venue Art on theMart will feature footage of Adams’s mystical animal statues
Acclaimed sculptural installation, once threatened with demolition, reopens at new site
An installation in Washington, DC by Elyn Zimmerman featuring 450,000-pound boulders has been relocated, with the artist reconfiguring and retitling her work for the new site
Abu Dhabi seeks to make waves with first major art biennial
The first "direct commission" unveiled by Public Art Abu Dhabi is a multimedia crashing wave display by the Seoul-based collective d’strict
'Public sculptures are tricky to get right: would making them temporary help?'
Public art is often lauded for bringing art out of hallowed gallery spaces and inviting everyone to see and opine on it. But it’s also fiendishly difficult to do well
Stick 'em up! Ai Weiwei invites you to give the middle finger in new online art project
So far targets on the platform developed in collaboration with Avant Arte have included landmarks, political buildings and even artworks
Builders accidentally demolish latest Banksy work—and pull the pieces from the rubble
Anonymous artist appears to have watched the new installation in the English county of Kent being destroyed before posting it Instagram
Vast light installation on San Francisco's Bay Bridge goes dark amid $11m fundraising effort to keep it on
After a decade of illuminating the Bay Area's second-most iconic span, Leo Villareal's artwork will be removed due to outages and weather damage
Lawsuit over controversial Marilyn Monroe statue reinstated by appeals court panel
The 26ft-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe has been called sexist by community members in Palm Springs, where it has been on public display since 2021
Olafur Eliasson to create major new land art project on UK coast
Artist has been commissioned to create a mirror-like steel pool in the Lake District in collaboration with the writer Robert Macfarlane
City of Santa Monica acquires Edgar Ramirez painting from Frieze Los Angeles
Collaboration enables the work from the fair’s Focus section to join the Art Bank collection of the local municipality
Manchester, Mumbai, the moon: Jitish Kallat's huge spiral installation in London connects climate change and the cosmos
Indian artist has staged his first UK public commission in Somerset House's Neo-Classical courtyard
Banksy stands up to domestic violence with new Valentine’s Day mural in coastal Kent town
The anonymous street artist has emblazoned a wall in Margate with an image of a woman disposing of her abusive husband
More than 1,000 people help artist JR hold up giant images of refugee children for Turin performance
The vast works shown in Northern Italy were made last year at camps in locations including Greece and Rwanda
Anish Kapoor’s shiny 'bean' sculpture in New York finally completed
Commissioned nearly 15 years ago, the bulbous outdoor artwork was delayed by the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic
Centrepiece of Destination Crenshaw, a sculpture-filled public space in south Los Angeles, to open in early autumn
The space, which will feature works by Maren Hassinger, Kehinde Wiley and others, also has the support of local celebrities Issa Rae and DeMar DeRozan
Historic statues of Black Brits go back on show at Brixton Station—with a familiar new friend
After 36 years, artist Kevin Atherton unveils a new work modelled on one of his original muses, local resident Joy Battick
‘We’re looking at the past as a gateway to the future’: Hank Willis Thomas on his new Martin Luther King Jr monument
The towering work, which depicts the interlocked arms of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled in Boston ahead of the MLK Day holiday
Mixed reviews for Hank Willis Thomas's new Boston memorial honouring Martin Luther King Jr
The public sculpture is based on a photograph of the assassinated civil rights leader hugging his wife Coretta Scott King—but some say it looks offensive from certain angles
‘It was screaming for a female’: Shahzia Sikander on creating a statue of a woman for a Manhattan courthouse
The artist’s new commission for Madison Square Park and an adjacent court building also includes an augmented reality component
Moving the needle: San Francisco to unveil Hiroshi Sugimoto's towering sundial monument
The 70ft-high public art commission expresses "humanity's yearning for the infinite"
Art Night contemporary art festival moves out of London to the Scottish city of Dundee
The Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani has been confirmed for a new commission