Commissions
Lubaina Himid creates work for UK government collection inspired by climate change and Black Lives Matter
Turner Prize-winning artist wins the annual Robson Orr TenTen Award, with 15 copies of the print going on display in official buildings
'I think as a society we want more from art': Doug Aitken on his pop-up kaleidoscope pavilion set on an abandoned Venetian island
The US artist created the commission Green Lens for the fashion brand Saint Laurent
JR unveils ‘X-ray’ optical illusion piece on historic Palazzo Farnese in Rome
Scaffolding cover-up work is part of French Embassy’s new ambitious contemporary art programme
'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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
Trampolining in a Saudi Arabian valley? First look at the interactive art biennial Desert X AlUla
Inaugural edition of the monumental show, opening this Friday, is free to the public
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
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
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
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”
'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
Monster Chetwynd’s monstrous children’s playground to open in Istanbul
Sculptural project, part of the 16th biennial, looks to the mythical creature Medusa
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
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
In pictures: Is it New York? Is it Los Angeles? Frieze Projects takes over Paramount's Backlot
“The results are magical, otherworldly, surreal and hyper-real but never dull,” says curator Ali Subotnick
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"
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
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
In pictures: Wolfgang Tillmans's set design for the English National Opera
The Turner prize winner unveils a sculptural piece and projections during the War Requiem oratorio
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
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
Huma Bhabha’s unsettling sculpture will be centrepiece of 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International festival
Commission is lined up for Wakefield city centre
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
In pictures: must-see works at Art Basel's Unlimited
The art fair's section dedicated to monumental works is full of plastic, plants—and lots of gold
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
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
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
'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
Emerging Arab artists to get international shows through new commissioning initiative
Six partner institutions including the Hammer Museum are behind collaborative art production model
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
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
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
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
Trainspotting: Yayoi Kusama's polka dot sculpture is latest London Crossrail commission
Conrad Shawcross will also produce a work for Liverpool Street site
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
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
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
Carsten Höller to build slide for Bonn Bundeskunsthalle
Installation will form part of an exhibition on playgrounds
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
Guggenheim commissions new works from five Chinese artists
Leading artists will produce site-specific works for permanent collection