Public art

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

‘Largest Black public art project in the US’ to launch in Los Angeles this spring

Conceived as an outdoor museum, with murals and sculptures by artists both world-renowned and locally beloved, Destination Crenshaw aims to preserve a close-knit community

Back-to-front Ford Ranger takes truck nuts to a new level at Frieze Los Angeles

Vehicle created by the artist Pippa Garner has fairgoers rubbernecking at Santa Monica airport

Emirati artists create public sculpture together after refusing to compete for the commission

Five artists collaborated on the sculpture, which has been unveiled outside Dubai's Etihad Museum

‘Shame on those that silence artists’: Shahzia Sikander speaks out after her opening in Texas is cancelled

The University of Houston seems to have caved to the threats of a local anti-abortion group

‘Anti-monumental’ works shortlisted for next Fourth Plinth commission in London's Trafalgar Square

Proposals by Veronica Ryan and Thomas J. Price include a sweet potato and woman’s head

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Preserving Banksy: public art database to document the UK’s murals

The project, backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will also capture many of Northern Ireland's politically charged street art works

London's Barbican to be wrapped in pink and purple in new commission by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama

Purple Hibiscus will be unveiled in April as part of a new exhibition at the gallery

When Sister Rosetta met Marsha P. Johnson: public art piece in London reimagines Leonardo’s Last Supper

Tavares Strachan’s monument is included in major colonialism survey at the Royal Academy

UK public invited to join ‘largest ever exhibition of the nation’s hobbies’

The Hobby Cave, devised by the artist Hetain Patel and Artangel, will bring thousands of handcrafted objects together

Uproar over US art centre’s plan to demolish Land art environment by Mary Miss

The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa intends to demolish Miss’s environmental intervention, against the artist’s wishes

Minnesota picks 24-year-old artist’s design for new state flag

While some may have preferred an endearing photo of a Minnesotan’s dog for the new flag, Andrew Prekker’s winning design is widely popular

Confederate Memorial coming down at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, DC

Now that a judge lifted a last-minute injunction, the monument will be gone by the end of the week

US artist Richard Hunt—creator of more than 160 public works—has died aged 88

The sculptor, who was committed to civil rights, recently completed a monument to Emmett Till

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Formaldehyde and butterflies in France—Damien Hirst takes over Château La Coste

Famous works by Brit artist to go on show at the sprawling Provençal estate

New National Museum of… (fill in the blank) invites contemplation on the role and pervasiveness of US museums

The public art project in Pittsburgh is preparing to launch its second phase, titled the “National Museum of Broken Treaties”

Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach

The purchase is part of the city’s annual programme to acquire a work from Art Basel in Miami Beach

Sky's the limit in public art project in solidarity with Miami's drag queens

As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cracks down on their public visibility, local celebrities from Fantasia Royale Gaga to Persephone Von Lips are celebrated in banner form above Española Way

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

The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again

With attractions by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Delaunay, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and others, the resurrected Luna Luna opens in Los Angeles this month

Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertips

Digital art platform Kinfolk has launched a four-artist exhibition that is available to view at designated sites through their application

Spectacular Lumiere art festival lights up UK city of Durham

The latest edition of the popular event includes work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ai Weiwei

Organisers of billboard art project allege their show in Texas on prison reform was censored

Companies that manage advertising spaces in Houston reportedly called off the project with little warning or explanation

As it marks its 20th anniversary, Madison Square Park's art programme will extend across Manhattan

The public art organisation will bring major sculptural installations to its namesake green space, and bring projects to other parks uptown

Appeals court backs Miami Beach decision to remove mural of police shooting victim

Controversial action was previously ruled as an act of “government speech”

Public art tribute planned for codebreaker Alan Turing as AI summit opens in the UK

Funding for the selected work will come from the government's Town Fund, designed to level up regions outside London

Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza form backdrop for spectacular contemporary art show

The annual exhibition is one of several contemporary art events taking place in the region

Temporary monument brings a feminist timeline of history to Washington, DC’s National Mall

Artist Tiffany Shlain’s sculpture “Dendrofemonology” chronicles women’s achievements stretching back 50,000 years, on the eve of an election in which women’s rights are at stake