Public art

After sudden dismissal of all its members, Pittsburgh mayor moves to overhaul the city's public art commission

The city's mayor, Ed Gainey, has proposed a series of sweeping changes to the way public art is funded and commissioned there

Temporary monuments to pop up on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in new initiative

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

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New sculpture unveiled outside London's King's Cross station makes 'homelessness impossible to ignore'

The work—highlighting the growing crisis of rough sleepers in the UK—will also travel to Birmingham

Monumental tree sculpture to be unveiled on New York’s High Line elevated park

High Line Art has commissioned artist Pamela Rosenkranz to make a 25ft-tall, red and pink tree in the park

Artist takes abortion fight to the beach in Miami

Conceptual artist Michele Pred will draw two giant abortion pills for reproductive health justice

Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith’s massive mosaic murals for new Manhattan train station revealed

The artists’ vast new works adorn the Grand Central Madison terminal, which opens to the public later this month

Miami Beach public votes to acquire installation by Cuban artist Juana Valdés from Art Basel fair

Valdés's work will join pieces by Amoako Boafo, Sanford Biggers and others on long-term public display

Miami’s controversial dog and cat sculpture park is unleashed

The new garden, containing 52 sculptures of pets by 50 local artists, has been criticised by many in the city’s arts community

Miami artist billboard project puts justice in the spotlight

Series of works by new and established artists aims to highlight Florida’s huge imprisonment rate to Art Basel Miami Beach fair-goers

Banksy shares behind-the-scenes video of his Ukraine interventions

The secretive artist has dropped a short making-of documentary chronicling his guerilla interventions in war-torn Horenka

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Future of ArtPrize, the biggest contemporary art contest in the US, uncertain after board disbands

The hugely popular contest also awarded major monies, with the winning artist taking home $250,000 most years

Banksy creates mural on bombed out building in Ukraine

The secretive artist apparently created a stencil of a gymnast amid the wreckage of a building in a city northwest of Kyiv

Ukrainian artists’ monumental projection takes over Chicago riverfront

A projection by Kyiv-based studio PHOTINUS and based on composer Mykola Leontovych's work is taking over a building in Chicago, which is home to a large Ukrainian diaspora community

A giant inflatable Koons, a desert mirror illusion and a giant football goal: seven of the best new sculptures in Qatar

On display from the airport to the desert, the public art commissions have been installed in time for the World Cup this month

Eight must-see sculptures from Paris+ par Art Basel's Jardin des Tuileries show

The public programme, Sites, brings together contemporary works artists including Niki de Saint Phalle, Otobong Nkanga and Franz West

Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith to create giant mosaics for new Manhattan train station

The 700,000 sq. ft Grand Central Madison, being built beneath Grand Central Terminal, will be home to permanent installations by the renowned artists

UK court of appeal rules Colston statue toppling a 'violent' act—but protestors still 'not guilty'

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

Shezad Dawood’s psychedelic spaceship unveiled at London's St Pancras Station

Public work HMS Alice Liddell—named after the women’s rights campaigner—envisions the capital as a site of "speculative fiction"

Out of the frying pan and into the future: new Alison Saar limited edition work hints at both the domestic and the celestial

A new work by the artist will be on offer for the first time at Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual benefit, with proceeds going to the park.

Will the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square be reserved for a statue of Queen Elizabeth II?

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

Jenny Holzer projection takes over Rockefeller Center in support of freedom of expression

The renowned conceptual artist’s latest public art piece, a collaboration with PEN America, comes after after shocking attacks on authors and journalists in the US

Hew Locke covers Met Museum with golden trophies inspired by colonial looting

The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories

Rachel Whiteread and Roger Hiorns shortlisted for major new UK land art project

The Deep Time initiative on West Cumbria coastline also includes works by Susan Philipsz and Ryan Gander

Canadian city’s decision to cancel statue of bison and fur trader is ‘authoritarian’, artist says

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

Banksy mural, and the Los Angeles building he painted it on, head to auction

The iconic mural of a girl on a swing, and the storied building on which it was painted, are expected to bring between $16m and $30m

Report on Chicago's monuments urges removal of Columbus statues, creation of markers that tell city's 'true and complete history'

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

Community-centred art pavilion to be unveiled at London's Notting Hill Carnival

The artist Alvaro Barrington and architect Sumayya Vally lean into the carnival's place as a robust "site of artistic creation"

Outcry over Mexico City’s plan to replace guerrilla ‘anti-monument’ to victims of gender violence with replica of pre-hispanic statue

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