NewsContemporary art
'Clay made me': Theaster Gates to receive series of major London shows around his love of ceramics
The Chicago-based artist will design the 2022 Serpentine Pavillion
NewsCommissions
From a huge Janus to a giant worm: seven site-specific sculptures spring up along the English coast
The Waterfronts commissions, by artists such as Michael Rakowitz and Katrina Palmer, have been created in collaboration with organisations like Turner Contemporary and the Folkestone Triennial
InterviewFrieze New York
‘A spiral of poets, all at once’: Precious Okoyomon, winner of the Frieze Artist Award, talks about their Tower of Babel-themed commission
An artist, poet and chef, Okoyomon discusses their inspirations as well as the ecosystems they have been creating
NewsPublic art
Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce to unveil 2km-long wall mural in London’s East End
Longest public art piece in Europe reflects community life, charting 170 local stories
NewsBiennials & festivals
Controversial 'festival of Brexit' moves a step closer with selection of ten winning teams for 2022 event
Turner prizewinning collective Assemble will lead a project at the £120m creativity showcase
NewsTracey Emin
After delays, Tracey Emin’s massive sculpture honouring her mother will head to Oslo's Munch Museum this summer
Production of The Mother monument took longer than expected due to its size and also because of how badly the UK was hit by the pandemic, city officials say
NewsStreet art
Street artist JR rips off the front of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi in new optical illusion work
Trompe l’oeil image called La Ferita (The Wound) reflects on the difficulties of accessing culture during Covid-19 and reveals Botticelli’s Primavera and The Birth of Venus
NewsVideo, film & new media
Fill your boots: Dr. Martens gives £60,000 for new video commissions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
Grants will be given to artists to create moving image works to premiere at the ICA's Image Behaviour 2021 forum
NewsInstallations
‘Absurd’, yet 'deadly serious’: Alex Da Corte will create the Met’s next rooftop installation
Sculptural installation will plumb the possibility of hope amid the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic
NewsLand art
Fantasy island: Holt/Smithson Foundation invites artists to create a new work for coastal Maine islet
Five artists have been asked to spend the next three years imagining what they could do with an uninhabited site
NewsCommissions
This Victorian house in London hides remarkable Islamic interiors—now it is getting its first contemporary work
Leighton House Museum—which was once the home and studio of artist Lord Leighton—is undergoing restoration and will reopen in 2021
NewsMuseums & Heritage
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum unveils trio of new commissions, including mural by Chanel Miller
The artist, who survived a sexual assault, has created a 1,000 sq ft triptych that explores the healing process
NewsPublic art
Sculpture confronting Germany's colonial past installed at Berlin’s long-awaited Humboldt Forum
Kang Sunkoo’s bronze Statue of Limitations shows a black flag at half-mast
NewsCommissions
Inspired by Italy's spontaneous singing, museums commission artists to make 'balcony art' during coronavirus crisis
Fourteen artists have been asked by the L’Internationale museum group to participate in the project, which supports artists with "quick, modest commissions"
NewsCommissions
Eight emerging Arab artists are chosen to show 'ambitious' works across the world
The commissioning project Consortium Commissions provides artists with up to $20,000 to realise their projects
NewsTurbine Hall
Anicka Yi—who uses bacteria and animatronic insects in her work—to make 'unforgettable' installation for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
Korean-born artist’s multisensory work draws on scientific concepts to explore gender and race
NewsCommissions
Korean wave hits the art world: K-pop stars collaborate on major artist projects
Connect BTS will take place across five cities and involve commissions by artists such as Antony Gormley and Tomás Saraceno
NewsSculpture
Antony Gormley in talks with French government over sculpture project in Brittany
Brexit is a disaster for the UK, says the sculptor as he unveils his Field for the British Isles installation at Firstsite gallery in Colchester
NewsStudio Voltaire
Phyllida Barlow sculpture to pop up in partially ruined, gothic chapel in London cemetery
Studio Voltaire’s ambitious off-site programme also includes commissions by Monster Chetwynd and Dawn Mellor
NewsCommissions
New Rolls-Royce initiative encourages artists to make video, animation and VR works
Scheme is part of the luxury car manufacturer's new vision for its art programme to “encourage artists to expand the limits of the imaginable”
NewsTacita Dean
'Passionate European’ Tacita Dean unveils stormy new work for UK Government Art Collection
Artist’s Californian cloudscape, drawn in chalk, hangs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
Emerging Arab artists to get international shows through new commissioning initiative
Six partner institutions including the Hammer Museum are behind collaborative art production model
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsArtists
Cai Guo-Qiang’s pyrotechnic mushroom cloud successfully erupts over Chicago
Multi-coloured explosive commission marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear reaction
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
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
News
First public art works for Battersea Power Station site selected
Jesse Wine and Haffendi Anuar awarded the inaugural Powerhouse Commission by Cass Sculpture Foundation
News
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
NewsCommissions
German parliament approves plan for unification memorial in Berlin
“Unity seesaw” is to be unveiled in 2019 in front of the city palace
News
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
News
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
News
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
NewsArt
Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital
Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic
NewsArt
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
News
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
NewsCommissions
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
NewsCommissions
Six sculptures for site near London’s new US embassy
British artists to produce works for development south of the Thames
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Robbie Antonio sits for 12 portraits (so far)
Kenny Scharf, Marilyn Minter, David LaChapelle and Julian Opie have all painted Antonio, and Takashi Murakami is in his sights
ArchiveMartin Creed
Artist antics: Martin Creed’s test run at Tate Britain, Elton John's dance moves, and Eugene Leroy's penchant for Proust
We can reveal that the Creed’s commission for the Duveen Galleries, to be unveiled next month, is likely to startle visitors
ArchiveTate Britain
Sotheby’s backs Tate sculpture commission
Martin Creed installation opens 30th June
ArchiveCommissions
Fontainebleau Hotel commissions major artists to become a true 'art hotel'
The Fontainebleau will show works by Turrell, Ai Weiwei and Rauschenberg
ArchiveFrançois Pinault
Pinault commissions remake of Chapman piece
The original work burned in a fire 2004
ArchiveTate
National Portrait Gallery: more transparent than Tate
Commission sum disclosed for Tom Phillips, unlike the purchase of "The Upper Room"
ArchiveOlafur Eliasson
The Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson now on display at Tate Modern
Could the commission for Tate's Turbine Hall create its own climate
ArchiveTate Modern
Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions
Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall
ArchiveJohn Deakin
John Deakin at the National Portrait Gallery: Bacon and the Soho bohemia
Retrospective on until 14 July
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Bacon joins art greats in illustrating Premier Cru Classé label
From Bacon, to Bacchus
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
Mohammad Sharaf