Artists, poets and writers will also respond to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass following the introduction of the UK's "retain and explain" policy

The work pre-empts an official memorial in the pipeline overseen by the Royal Household and the UK government

New public art show will bring alternative monuments by Derrick Adams, Wendy Red Star, vanessa german and others to the busiest national park in the US

UK defence secretary Ben Wallace made the suggestion following a review of LGBTQ veterans' experiences—but critics point out the minister's contradictory voting record

The city of Charlottesville still faces possible legal action

Artists Olalekan B. Jeyifous and Amanda Williams have been given the go-ahead to realise a commemorative statue of the political legend

The unidentified Swiss teenager is the second person to make headlines this summer for carving letters into the walls of the ancient site

Previously free, a standard tourist ticket to the ancient site now costs €5

The Mile High City will create a new monument to a 1978 protest that was a landmark for the disability rights movement

The latest round of grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project will support projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and elsewhere

Massive sculpture by Simon Hitchens, criticised by local campaign group, is three times the size of Antony Gormley’s 'Angel of the North'

Artist Navine G. Dossos created a towering, kaleidoscopic mural in tribute to the assassinated journalist at Richmond's Institute for Contemporary Art

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

Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself

Six artists have been selected to create commemorative interventions in the US capital's sprawling public space

Case was escalated after some Conservative MPs criticised the acquittal of the four protestors who removed the public monument

Questions raised about the fate of the capital’s most prominent platform for contemporary art

Ken Lum’s bronze statue, completed years ago but never installed, was deaccessioned by Edmonton for fear that it “may cause harm”

The city’s department of cultural affairs is also giving $50,000 grants to eight projects to create new temporary or permanent monuments

After an earlier plan for a new sculpture by artist Pedro Reyes was roundly rejected, the municipal government said it had received activists’ blessing to replace the protest monument that stood in its place

The 16ft-tall structure, sometimes referred to as "America’s Stonehenge", was built in 1980 and inscribed with a ten-part message that may have been meant to help survivors of an apocalyptic event rebuild society

Major project by Art UK involving 500 volunteers sees 13,500 sculptures from across the UK posted online

Ahead of his major retrospective at the Royal Academy this autumn, South African artist says Britain needs "imaginative solutions" for colonial era statues

The titanium People’s Friendship Arch above the statue will remain but be renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People

Victor Ehikhamenor's towering work has been placed beside the building's memorial to the man who led the plunder of the Benin bronzes in 1897

After four people who toppled Edward Colston statue are acquitted, the debate over problematic public art deepens

In the waning months of his presidency, Donald Trump’s administration imposed a ban on commissioning abstract or modernist art for federal buildings

Leigh’s sculpture was unveiled at the symbolically charged site in the city centre during the closing weekend of the fifth Prospect New Orleans triennial

The equestrian statue, which depicts Roosevelt on horseback flanked by a Native American man and a man of African descent, had been the focus of years-long campaigns from activists calling for its removal