The abstract sound sculpture, the first commission for a fifth plinth in Collins Park, will emit recordings of women speaking maternal affirmations, reminders and critiques

One of the iron rules of art history is that the more derided a work of art at first, the more celebrated it will become

Sculpture by Maggi Hambling is the result of a decade-long campaign to honour the 18th-century women's rights advocate

Monuments commemorating the First and Second World Wars—mostly built in small towns and villages—are added to Historic England's list of protected places

Amid increased unrest over memorials since the Black Lives Matter protests erupted, the grant will help fund new storytelling spaces across the country

Governor Andrew Cuomo has suggested a site for the monument of the Supreme Court justice, overlooking the Statue of Liberty

Officials voted recently to keep the monument on courthouse property in Lake Charles, Louisiana, but Hurricane Laura made an executive decision

The Indigenous guide who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition across America’s western territories was later celebrated by the women’s vote movement—but her story was never fully told

As part of the museum's efforts to address Britain’s colonial past, officials acknowledge that the collector "exploited slaves"

As the Black Lives Matter movement goes global, museums face renewed demands to restitute artefacts plundered from Africa

Some Italian-Americans, including the New York governor Andrew Cuomo, say statues of Columbus symbolise the history of Italians in the US

As US levies toughest sanction yet on China for its destruction of Hong Kong’s relatively free political system, Weiming says he wants to pay tribute to the "people's fight for freedom"

Perhaps the time has come to remove the plinth and stop celebrating individual heroes

Racism runs far deeper than representation, says the artist Thomas J. Price

Statue that replaced toppled monument to slave trader Edward Colston has polarised opinion

History can teach us a lot about how to—and how not to—deal with problematic historic monuments

Installed overnight, the work depicts local resident Jen Reid who was photographed on the site when the monument was toppled last month

But which ones will ascend to a more permanent station in today’s social imagination?

The conceptual artist JB Daniel has offered a location for America’s unwanted statues in an industrial wasteland bounded by the Calumet River

Telling America’s overlooked stories is fundamental to building a true national identity, says preservationist Brent Leggs

Unveiled in a business centre in Moscow, the statue by contemporary artist Alexey Garikovich was commissioned by top Russian e-commerce and foodtech companies

Leaders argue that Trump's plan for a rally there is an "unforgivable affront"

The disposal of Confederate monuments will not erase America’s history, but some say removing them from public view is crucial to moving forward

His Art Russe Foundation has made offers to preserve monuments of Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander Baranov that have been the target of protesters in the US

The former president’s great-grandson supports the removal of “relics of another age”

Trust says such monuments “do not reflect, and are in fact abhorrent to, our values”

Sculpture by Latvian artist Aigars Bikse is in a prominent spot in front of the National Museum of Art

Plus, Hew Locke on Agostino Brunias's Dancing Scene in the West Indies. Produced in association with Christie's

UK arts professionals express support for Madeline Odent whose comments prompted a backlash on Twitter

Culture ministry launches open call for monument that will be sited near the Musée du Louvre