Public Art

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Salena Barry reflects on how the public art commission captures the pioneering spirit of Britain’s Caribbean community

BY Salena Barry | 22 JUN 22

After a swarm of bad press, Huw Lemmey speaks to the much-maligned attraction on the occasion of its closure

BY Huw Lemmey | 12 JAN 22

From fetishistic sculpture gardens in Italy to a giant breast in New York, the artist speaks with Carina Bukuts on what role gender and sex play in public art

BY Carina Bukuts AND Lena Henke | 15 APR 21

Trisha Low on encountering Singapore’s fantastic, ubiquitous symbol of independence

BY Trisha Low | 25 MAR 21

From its secret removal to its celebrated resurrection, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung explores the lives and afterlives of the Kassel statue controversy

‘You are deeper than what you think’ is the French artist’s first UK public art commission

BY Kadish Morris | 24 JUN 19

For more than 60 years the Tehran-born, Minneapolis-based artist has made work about community, coexistence and the experience of exile

BY Ian Bourland | 03 JUN 19

Exploring Isamu Noguchi's News (1940), the inspiration for Frieze Sculpture New York

BY Brett Littman | 24 APR 19

Frieze global partner LIFEWTR marks the inaugural Frieze Los Angeles with a publicly accessible artwork at The Standard DTLA by L.A. artist Tofer Chin

20 FEB 19

Criticisms of impact are missing the project’s power to change behaviour, argues collaborator and geologist Minik Rosing

BY Hettie Judah | 14 DEC 18

A three-hour flight west of Lisbon, a setting of emerald landscapes and panoramic ocean views backdrops this annual Summer project 

BY Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva | 13 AUG 18

Every night they dissembled the shed; every morning they built it anew

BY David Balzer | 20 JUL 18

The 20-metre-high Mastaba finally realizes the artist and his late wife Jeanne-Claude’s design

19 JUN 18

As the most expensive railway on earth is built, is art being used as a mouthpiece for power?

BY Tom Jeffreys | 15 JUN 18

The Triforium – Los Angeles’s weirdest and most reviled public artwork – awakes from a long slumber

BY Evan Moffitt | 05 MAR 18

Thoughts on the difficulties of introducing art into the public realm, following a recent symposium organized by Oslo Pilot

BY Harry Thorne | 09 DEC 16

A report from the festival on feminism and public space in Hamburg

BY Chloe Stead | 12 MAY 16

What are the rights of artists when their work  is vandalized?

BY Daniel McClean | 11 DEC 15

Art historian Andrianna Campbell and photographer Matthew Connors visited Cuba to explore the shifting meaning of political monuments in a new era of change

BY Andrianna Campbell | 21 OCT 15

Public monuments, Islamic State and contesting the story of the past by Marina Warner

BY Marina Warner | 25 SEP 15