Public Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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