Public art
Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush, hidden in plain sight for 52 years, is marked and restored
Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the environment
Miami Advice: Reginald O’Neal on the Purvis Young mural that has always stayed with him
Continuing last year’s popular series, throughout Art Basel Miami Beach we are speaking to members of the local art scene about their favourite cultural destinations around Miami
Nina Surel’s ceramic symbol of Florida acquired for Miami Beach’s collection at Art Basel
The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme
How Craig Robins became a collector with an eye to the future, seen through the prism of the past
The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari
Tusk tusk: couple gets a hard time over animal instincts atop Miami sculpture
Sex on the beach is the elephant in the room in Miami, where a couple has given a new meaning to public art
Artist Jen Stark brings her kaleidoscopic imagery to her hometown with Miami outdoor installation
The artist invites visitors to dive into a playful space on the historic Española Way and become part of her work
US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol
With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city
Hew Locke to ‘disrupt’ statue of Belgium monarch who oversaw brutal Congo regime
The British-Guyanese artist will place five masts in front of the depiction of Leopold II, whose administration was characterised by “systematic brutality and atrocities”
The beautiful game? Untangling the tricky relationship between art and football
The sport has a rich historical connection to visual culture but a new trend to immortalise the living presents interesting challenges
Indigenous mound in St Louis is transferred to the Osage Nation
Along with the land transfer, the city of St Louis acknowledged the Osage Nation’s tribal sovereignty and their ancestral rights to the site
New public art partnership will link New York and Toronto
The forthcoming Lassonde Art Trail is teaming up with both the Public Art Fund and York University’s L.L. Odette Sculptor in Residence programme
Out with the Astors, in with the Calders: revisiting Newport, Rhode Island’s 1974 public sculpture extravaganza
Fifty years later, Monumenta’s organisers and attendees reflect on what was arguably the most ambitious school project ever
Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India
Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals
Shepard Fairey murals of Kamala Harris go up in battleground states as early voting begins in US presidential election
One of the murals, in Durham, North Carolina, brought together Fairey, cultural organiser Wyatt Closs, gallery owner Linda Shropshire and the local community
Court pauses eviction of popular New York sculpture garden
Elizabeth Street Garden can stay open for two more weeks as volunteers try to prevent its demolition
Artist-designed billboards opposing Donald Trump and supporting Kamala Harris go up in battleground states
The campaign, organised by the non-profit People For the American Way, includes images by Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Kass, Alyson Shotz, Christine Sun Kim, Hank Willis Thomas and others
Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle
This could be the beginning of the end for the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden
New Niki de Saint Phalle documentary chronicles her personal struggles and aesthetic triumphs
Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Niki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan
Avoiding the mistakes of the past: symbolic sculptures by Indigenous artists unveiled at site of historic Canadian battlefield
The permanent sculptures by Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart and Wendat Nation artist Ludovic Boney were unveiled in Québec City’s Cap Diamant on Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
New York arts non-profit launches three-year programme celebrating the city’s Latinx community
The Clemente’s ambitious ‘Historias’ project officially begins this weekend with a block party on the Lower East Side
Olafur Eliasson will blur advertising billboards in London, Seoul, New York and Berlin
The Danish-Icelandic artist is unveiling a series of out-of-focus videos, Lifeworld, on 1 October
Cree artist Kent Monkman commissioned to create large outdoor work for new Toronto art trail
The Lassonde Art Trail will launch along the city’s waterfront in 2026
Los Angeles authorities criticised for art project to ‘beautify’ areas after unhoused people living in vehicles moved
In a city facing an acute housing crisis, and where around 14,000 people live in their vehicles, the initiative sparked a swift backlash from artists and housing advocates
Subversive art hidden in plain sight in Times Square
Patrick Amadon slipped a message about Gaza into his New York billboard
‘Symbols of innocence and comfort’: Qatar art installation brings together 15,000 teddy bears in tribute to children killed in Gaza
The work, by the Lebanese artist Bachir Mohamad, was inspired by footage of a child in Gaza crying while holding a cuddly toy
Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission — podcast
The American artist on his interventions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a chat about a new publication exploring Gauguin’s complex character, and the details on a new London sculpture paying tribute to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities
Guests struck by debris from Cai Guo-Qiang’s fireworks at PST Art launch event
A Getty spokesperson confirms multiple people were injured
Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities
The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico
Bizarre optics at Cai Guo-Qiang’s fiery kick-off event for Getty’s PST Art initiative
Fireworks by the Chinese artist ran counter to the point of many PST Art projects
Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years—purchasing bronze installation for £176,500
The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it