Ambitious public art commission to makeover London's bridges is supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation

Controversial items relating to the artist's life were scrapped from original design over fears they could be linked to drug, knife and gun crime

Bloomberg Philanthropies directs $1m to a Florida community for “collective healing” through art

As well as Brixton, Anthony Padgett’s works will go to Isleworth, Ramsgate, Welwyn, the Borinage, Nuenen and Arles

Planning permission for the installation extended until 2020

Chicago’s aborted effort to sell Kerry James Marshall’s public work teaches us something about the transactional nature of today’s culture

“Little mer-sausage”, part of the Icelandic capital’s Cycle festival of music and art, has divided opinion

While the Public and Film sectors are not taking place this year, the large-scale performance and installation work will be shown free to the public in the convention centre's new 60,000 sq ft Grand Ballroom

Artist Olu Oguibe accepts alternative location, saying work’s humane message is urgently needed

Artist-run organisation For Freedoms’ country-wide initiative is a rallying point—even in right-leaning states

The work, commissioned in the 1990s for $10,000, is due to be sold at Christie’s, New York for an estimated $10m to $15m

Jump aboard Tauba Auerbach's dazzling fireboat for the Public Art Fund and then get lost in a concrete utopia at MoMA

A floating art project in New York tells refugees’ stories during the UN General Assembly

From righteous indignation to interactive play

Designs and location of statue for bicentenary of "turning point in UK democracy" will be put to public consultation

In their latest project, the guerrilla group Indecline compares the US president to serial killer John Wayne Gacy

Haroon Gunn-Salie’s installation of 17 headless men represents victims of Marikana shootings

Proposal to move Emmeline Pankhurst sculpture comes months after new Millicent Fawcett work was unveiled to celebrate centenary of female suffrage

Fund-raisers have so far raised €300,000 of €800,000 needed

Saudi artist Ajlan Gharem's installation stands as an example of cultural exchange as diplomatic tensions break out between Canada and Saudi Arabia

Reasons and perpetrators behind the removal of the key biennial work remain unclear

US Customs and Border Protection is considering whether to remove or preserve the painting, which some have complained is disrespectful

When the sun’s out, get your buns—and other extremities—out to catch some of these projects across the city

A project has enlivened a drab area with 300 portraits

The “ghost monument” in Hudson River Park would be paid for and maintained by the Whitney Museum

Parcours, the Art Basel section for public art projects, is "radically different" from previous editions, says its curator Samuel Leuenberger

Non-partisan platform For Freedoms has signed up over 200 institutions for the initiative, which aims to make art part of the public discourse