NewsIstanbul Biennial
Monster Chetwynd’s monstrous children’s playground to open in Istanbul
Sculptural project, part of the 16th biennial, looks to the mythical creature Medusa
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Olafur Eliasson commissioned to light up the Arc de Triomphe
Project is part of the City of Paris's programme of raising its image ahead of the 2024 Games
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles
What to buy at Frieze Los Angeles? Lisa Anne Auerbach offers psychic art advice
Artist's performance for the fair's projects programme aims to unshroud doubts around collecting and the art market
BlogChinese art
Did somebody order Chinese (art)? Qiu Anxiong partners with New York restaurant
NewsPublic art
Laure Prouvost to bring Brexit song to London underground passengers as part of 2019 commissions
Ahead of UK leaving the European Union, Art on the Underground programme looks at what it means to be "on edge"
NewsBridge
Multi-million pound donation gives Illuminated River project the green light for next year
Ambitious public art commission to makeover London's bridges is supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation
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Rachel Whiteread turns a Nissen Hut inside out for her first UK permanent piece
The concrete cast—a 14-18 Now commission—is sited in a secluded spot in Dalby Forest
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Tania Bruguera renames Tate Modern after local London activist as part of Turbine Hall commission
Heat-sensitive floor work and crying room part of “stealth” piece pushing positive aspects of migration
NewsSculpture
Huma Bhabha’s unsettling sculpture will be centrepiece of 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International festival
Commission is lined up for Wakefield city centre
NewsThe Buck stopped here
Football fans and Pride paraders mingle with art crowds for South London's Art Night
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Random International’s new permanent commission on London’s embankment to be unveiled on Art Night
Sixty projects will punctuate the contemporary art trail winding through South Bank, Vauxhall and Nine Elms
PreviewArt Basel 2018
Basilea: Turn on, tune in and chill at the Messeplatz
Creative Time’s Art Basel project abounds with everything from gravel deposits to DJ-led meditations
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Selfridges department store gets its own Fourth Plinth designed by architect David Chipperfield
Partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park is shop's latest investment in contemporary art
NewsPublic art
Massive Kickstarter campaign launched for 'largest-ever public art project in US' with billboards across all 50 states
Non-partisan platform For Freedoms has signed up over 200 institutions for the initiative, which aims to make art part of the public discourse
InterviewPublic art
'Courage calls to courage everywhere': Suffragist sculpture unveiled in London
Gillian Wearing talks about creating the first statue of a woman—and by a female artist—in Parliament Square
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Emerging Arab artists to get international shows through new commissioning initiative
Six partner institutions including the Hammer Museum are behind collaborative art production model
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Lift off: UK artist buries planes at three sites as part of growing global network
Roger Hiorns has placed decommissioned aircraft underground in the UK, Czech Republic and Holland—Nigeria could be next
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New Armory installation invites you to just let go and dance
Artist Nick Cave will transform Park Avenue venue into a carnivalesque dance hall this summer
NewsSexual harassment
Tracey Emin reveals she was sexually assaulted by high-profile female artist
UK artist describes attack as her new anti-Brexit neon work is unveiled in London
NewsVenice Biennale
Cathy Wilkes—known for her unsettling sculptural installations—to represent UK at 2019 Venice Biennale
The artist was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008 and has just closed her first major retrospective at MoMA PS1
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Trainspotting: Yayoi Kusama's polka dot sculpture is latest London Crossrail commission
Conrad Shawcross will also produce a work for Liverpool Street site
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Valeria Napoleone spreads the love in support of Alexandra Bircken and London art space Studio Voltaire
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Kuwaiti artists awarded inaugural Art Jameel commission for new Dubai culture complex
Alia Farid and Aseel AlYacoub will create a light-up botanical garden linking both wings of the Jameel Arts Centre
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Books, trees and live birds: Mark Dion's new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Cornelia Parker: from Westminster Hall to Cambridge’s Kettle's Yard
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Cornelia Parker captures dystopian political era in new works for UK’s snap election
First female Election Artist unveils two new videos and a series of photographs using drones and Instagram
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Ai Weiwei and Antony Gormley in the running for Treasure Island commissions
The $50m San Francisco Bay redevelopment plan includes several large-scale public sculptures
NewsCarsten Höller
Carsten Höller to build slide for Bonn Bundeskunsthalle
Installation will form part of an exhibition on playgrounds
NewsTate Britain
Anthea Hamilton becomes first black woman to be awarded Tate Britain commission
The London-born artist follows Cerith Wyn Evans and Pablo Bronstein taking up the Duveen Galleries commission
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Guggenheim commissions new works from five Chinese artists
Leading artists will produce site-specific works for permanent collection
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s pyrotechnic mushroom cloud successfully erupts over Chicago
Multi-coloured explosive commission marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear reaction
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Superflex to sail across the Pacific for eco-art initiative
Danish collective will board the Dardanella ship as part of latest environmental project led by TBA21-Academy
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New Bloomberg HQ brings together Roman artefacts and contemporary art
Financial giant’s new London base includes sprawling commissions by Olafur Eliasson and Michael Craig-Martin
NewsMonuments
David Adjaye and Ron Arad unanimously selected to design UK Holocaust and Memorial Centre
Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor also competed for the prestigious commission honouring victims of Nazi persecution
NewsFrieze 2017
Vinyl Factory’s first site-specific commission comes to the Strand
Ryoji Ikeda's work is going on show at Store Studios
NewsPerformance art
New York’s Performa festival announces new commissions by Barbara Kruger
The artist will also design marketing materials for the biennial of performance art
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First public art works for Battersea Power Station site selected
Jesse Wine and Haffendi Anuar awarded the inaugural Powerhouse Commission by Cass Sculpture Foundation
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Shortlist for UK National Holocaust Memorial goes on show at V&A
Rachel Whiteread, Michal Rovner and Anish Kapoor in the running to create new structure honouring victims of Nazi persecution
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German parliament approves plan for unification memorial in Berlin
“Unity seesaw” is to be unveiled in 2019 in front of the city palace
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A totem sculpture, Physical Energy, to rise up in the woods south of London
The Watts Gallery Trust has authorised a cast of this masterpiece by George Frederick Watts to celebrate his bicentenary
NewsExhibitions
Broomberg & Chanarin to bring their politically-engaged art to the London Underground
New film at Canary Wharf will focus on refugee crisis in Europe, while current show in Milan includes topical works from past ten years
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Shortlist announced to light up river Thames and 17 London bridges
Illuminated River design teams include artists such as Glenn Ligon, Angela Bulloch, Philippe Parreno and Leo Villareal<br>
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King’s Cross Project brings in two new curators
Tamsin Dillon and Rebecca Heald will commission works for the regenerated London station and surrounding area
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Adel Abdessemed’s new bird sculpture nests in a Peckham car park
Bold Tendencies in south London unveils small-scale commission by the Algerian artist known for his provocative pieces
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Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital
Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic
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Daniel Silver to create new sculpture celebrating work of Oxford nurses
Three Figures will be part of public art scheme around former Radcliffe Infirmary
NewsArt fairs
It’s cave art, but not as we know it
Allora & Calzadilla install 1960s Dan Flavin light piece in the Puerto Rican jungle
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Huang Yong Ping to build an archipelago in Paris for 2016 Monumenta commission
The vast installation at the Grand Palais reflects the changing world order
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London hospital commissions art to be part of cure
New cancer centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ will feature works by artists including Daniel Silver and Angela Bulloch
CommentExhibitions
Interactive art: 'dumb stunts' have gone too far
Why art should not become a fairground attraction
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Six sculptures for site near London’s new US embassy
British artists to produce works for development south of the Thames
CommentProtest
Why I made a cemetery for hundreds of banned books in Kuwait
Kuwaiti artist Mohammad Sharaf hopes to provoke the general public as well as the authorities
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