Commissions

Tschabalala Self and Andra Ursuța to create next works for London’s Fourth Plinth

The new sculptures will be unveiled on the Trafalgar Square site in 2026 and 2028

Five artists shortlisted to create London’s first ever permanent HIV/Aids memorial

Anya Gallaccio and Diana Puntar are among those who have submitted proposals for the work, which will reportedly be unveiled in 2026

Tate Britain unveils Keith Piper's artistic response to racist Rex Whistler mural

"One of the most challenging issues I've faced”, says museum director Alex Farquharson on dealing with the controversial 1927 artwork

Keith Piper's thoughtful response to Tate Britain's racist mural avoids the usual get-out clauses

The artist's research-based video exploring Rex Whistler's The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats benefited from the museum's collaborative approach

Jeffrey Gibson and Jennie C. Jones will transform the Metropolitan Museum's outdoor spaces in 2025

The artists' forthcoming façade and rooftop installations at the museum will explore the intersections of identity and art history

Daniel Buren takes a world tour with a series of commissions at luxury hotels from Rio de Janeiro to Tuscany

The veteran artist, famous for his bright colours, is creating site-specific installations at hotels this summer

Iraqi artist Mohammed Sami, witness to war, to take over Blenheim Palace

Goldsmiths graduate will draw inspiration from the 18th-century UK stately home

Metropolitan Museum lines up three major contemporary art commissions for 2024

Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul and Tong Yang-Tze have been chosen to complete new projects at one of the most visited museums in the US

Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

Artists paid less than £3 an hour for public art commissions, report finds

The Structurally F–cked survey looked at artists' pay and conditions, and found a "culture of low fees, unpaid labour, and systemic exploitation"

Commemorating King Charles III's coronation: nine artists commissioned by UK government to create works

One of the chosen artists, Cornelia Parker, describes her encounters with anti-monarchy protestors

Lauren Halsey's Metropolitan Museum rooftop commission: a pharaonic temple merging ancient Egypt with Los Angeles

For the New York installation, the Californian artist has carved onto a concrete pavilion references to Afrofuturism and funk music and images of her family and friends

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Bridget Riley is bringing the colours of ancient Egypt to Rome with a major ceiling painting commission

Riley will transform the barrel-vaulted ceiling at the British School at Rome with a palette of bold colours based on ancient Egyptian iconography

Climate change, a Gothic cathedral and champagne cellars: Eva Jospin takes on latest Ruinart commission

Promenade[s], an installation made mainly from cardboard and inspired by the landscape around Reims, will be shown at art fairs worldwide over the next year

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

Tate announces El Anatsui as next artist for vast Turbine Hall commission

Ghana-born, Nigeria-based artist—known for his signature bottle-cap sculptures—will unveil the work in London in October

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"

Artist Ai Weiwei reads Dalai Lama's new letter to the world: 'The Art of Hope'

The video and message are part of the digital art platform Circa's new art commissions for public screens and billboards around the world

Salamanders at Gloucester Road station and a new mural at Brixton tube—Art on the Underground 2023 programme revealed

Monster Chetwynd, Jem Perucchini and Zadie Xa will all unveil works around London’s transport hubs

New sculpture unveiled outside London's King's Cross station makes 'homelessness impossible to ignore'

The work—highlighting the growing crisis of rough sleepers in the UK—will also travel to Birmingham

Syrian painter Sara Shamma creates image of one of England's greatest—and most controversial—saints

No depictions exist of St Wilfrid of York, who was a well-travelled, pugnacious and ambitious young man and founder of the seventh-century Ripon Cathedral

Shezad Dawood’s psychedelic spaceship unveiled at London's St Pancras Station

Public work HMS Alice Liddell—named after the women’s rights campaigner—envisions the capital as a site of "speculative fiction"

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Meta London unveils art commissions at vast King’s Cross office complex

Works on show by Yinka Ilori, Mary Evans and Jeremy Hutchison who aims to explore Mark Zuckerberg’s "business model"

Hot on the heels of Tate commission, Hew Locke chosen to transform Met museum façade

Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures that draw on the New York museum's collection

Artist Hew Locke to re-work historic statue of Queen Victoria in Birmingham city centre

As debate over controversial monuments rages on, new project will be part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival culture programme linked to the Commonwealth Games

Andrew Lloyd-Webber on why he commissioned eight monumental Shakespearian paintings for a London theatre

Artist Maria Kreyn’s depictions of King Lear and Othello go on show as part of Theatre Royal Drury Lane's £60m revamp

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

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