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Chila Burman unveils neon dreamland at Covent Garden market
Chila Burman emblazons London’s Covent Garden market building with a neon light spectacle. Here, the artist explains the story behind the new installation, an ode to identity, hope and magic
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Cristina Iglesias turns derelict lighthouse into staggering geological sculpture
Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has transformed a lighthouse on Donostia-San Sebastián’s Santa Clara Island into a kinetic water sculpture
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Qatar transforms into a museum of public art ahead of 2022 FIFA World Cup
As anticipation builds in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in November, Qatar Museums has expanded its public art programme with 40 new works by the likes of Jeff Koons, Ugo Rondinone, Yayoi Kusama, Katharina Fritsch, Shilpa Gupta and Shouq Al Mana
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Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office’s timber pavilion celebrates Indigenous histories
A sobering monument to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, In Absence is a collaboration between the contemporary artist and Melbourne-based studio for the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission
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‘Image as virus’: World AIDS Day 2021 marked with powerful new public film
To mark World AIDS Day, (1 December 2021), and 40 years since the disease was first recorded, Circa will present VideoVirus, a compelling new film by AA Bronson and General Idea screened on public billboards in London, Seoul and Tokyo
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At home with Hew Locke
Our ‘At home with’ interview series explores what creatives are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. This time, we step over the threshold with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke
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Three days in Doha: art, sport, desert, heat
In our three-day Doha diary, we record the fruits of Qatar’s cultural transformation, which involved Jeff Koons, a glass palace of books, and a desert sunset on Richard Serra
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Cristina Iglesias’ radical public sculpture: ‘I’m not trying to recreate nature’
With projects in London and New York, including an installation at the Royal Academy, it’s a major moment for Cristina Iglesias. We speak to the Spanish artist about her explorations of public space
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Sea change: artists make waves at the 2017 Folkestone Triennial
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The postwar public art that became a symbol of the British modernist dream
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Watch Mat Collishaw's eerie ode to bats
British artist Mat Collishaw's mesmerising public video installation Echolocation tunes into the navigation technique used by bats and pays homage to the rich history of Kingston
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An illuminating new art project sees London’s bridges shine
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Tomás Saraceno’s aerosolar sculptures take flight in Miami
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In flight entertainment: Duke Riley’s ’Fly By Night’ casts pigeons as the star
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Peckham’s creativity reaches a higher level in a multistorey car park
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Adjaye Associates reveals Martyrs Memorial in Niamey
Adjaye Associates unveils a design for Niger's Niamey, Le Mémorial des Martyrs, a powerful monument for the West African country
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Nari Ward illuminates Denver with politically potent public art
In conjunction with the artist's major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Nari Ward's public art project, including site-specific work Lazarus Beacon, champions equal access to art and urges closer inspection of American history
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Crossrail shifts seven million tonnes of earth to make London more connected
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Pantone offers a taste of its 2019 Color of the Year in pop-up pantry installation
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Over the rainbow: a multi-purpose digital streetlamp launches for LDF
Arriving near the end of London Design Festival, The Ommatidium, created by designer Samuel Wilkinson and neuroscience professor Beau Lotto, is a multi-purpose landmark, acting as a sculpture, street lamp, community notice board and refractor of light, which beams down rainbows from its 1500 hand-made crystal prisms.
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Tavares Strachan’s call for unity is written in neon
The Bahamian artist reflects on unity and belonging as he unveils plans for a public sculpture in Telluride, Colorado
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Former Oxfordshire farm becomes unexpected art haven
Escape the city heatwave to Albion Fields, a new destination for rural outdoor sculpture, which opens with an exhibition including works by Joana Vasconcelos, Ai Weiwei and Erwin Wurm
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Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias awarded the Royal Academy Architecture Prize
The role of public art in inspiring architects and improving urban environments has been recognised by the awarding of artist Cristina Iglesias the annual Royal Academy Architecture Prize in London
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Alexandre da Cunha’s vast kinetic art for Battersea Power Station Tube
At the new Battersea Power Station London Underground station, Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha has unveiled Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset a public kinetic artwork inspired by the former power station control room, and the rhythms of urban life
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Robots track Tokyo 2020 Olympic highlights to create public art
In The Constant Gardeners, Jason Bruges Studio’s new public art installation, four robotic ‘gardeners’ use live data from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to create striking artworks
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Bosco Sodi’s message of post-pandemic hope in New York City
The Mexican artist takes over Manhattan's Washington Square Park on Sunday 23 May, giving away 439 small clay spheres embedded with seeds to spread a message of hope
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Emma Talbot on optimism, feminism and reconfiguring the roots of power
The British artist and winner of the eighth Max Mara Art Prize for Women illuminates Piccadilly Circus with optimism and confronts perceived shame around female ageing
