Rachel Whiteread and Anish Kapoor also competed for the prestigious commission honouring victims of Nazi persecution

As the debate rages about divisive Confederate monuments, five leading US scholars and curators pick the nation’s greatest memorial sculptures

The Frieze Artist Award winner brings an Angolan take on the public sculpture debate

Colonial monuments and the US flag are subverted at Frieze London

Daniel Libeskind-designed monument in concrete and metal has the shape of a distorted Star of David

City and state governments around the country are looking at what to do with the controversial statues

“Unity seesaw” is to be unveiled in 2019 in front of the city palace

Vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia describes Pop art as a ‘fad’

But funding still needs to be found for Bouquet of Tulips, which is modelled on the Statue of Liberty

Monument of communist revolutionary was dug up for new permanent exhibition on statues of past political leaders

Frank Gehry revises controversial design but the family of the soldier and statesman remains unimpressed

Artists could subvert statues of Confederate heroes, assuming Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and others stay put on their plinths

Conservation treatment may resolve conflicting accounts of monument's history

Mehmet Aksoy's Monument to Humanity was razed by local council after Recep Tayyip Erdogan called it a "monstrosity"

The statue stood in Lenin Square until 1990, when it was cut into 129 pieces and buried in the woods

The sculpture was famously attacked by Parliamentarians shortly after the outbreak of the English Civil War

The family is objecting to the "extravagant" scheme

Artist Nico Widerberg’s sculptures welcomed by many, but the way an anonymous donor is funding them upsets others

They represent good and bad aspects of Iraq’s modern history and cannot simply be obliterated

Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis

More than 4,000 people have signed a petition to appoint an African American architect and artist for the monument

We take stock of the mania for commemoration that has overtaken New York and Washington, DC

Public outcry scuppered Helsinki officials' plan to buy granite bust of the Communist leader

Parliament has finally voted to build Berlin's memorial to the Holocaust

The US architect's new building for ancient Roman monument to replace one commissioned by the Fascist dictator in the 1930s

The act is part of a considerable effort to erase Mussolini’s mark on the nation

Budapest is creating a sculpture park for more than 45 works depicting Lenin, Marx and others

Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed

New book "The Monument" explains why greater attention to the Iraqi director’s iconography might have illuminated Western politicians as to his ambitions

Are these acts a citizens’ protest against the situation in which the country now finds itself, or are they merely vandalism?