A new public art project is set to liven up the streets of New York City’s five boroughs as well as nearby parts of New Jersey with soccer ball-themed sculptures created in honor of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The project, titled “The Art of the Game,” was conceived by New Jersey-based arts accessibility initiative […]
Ugo Rondinone's MORE LIGHT transforms London through a rainbow installation, fifty-four Bond Street flags and new sunrise and sunset paintings.
A house and its garden stand alone on a traffic island, with bicycles, cars, buses, trams and pedestrians passing by on all sides. However, nobody lives there, as this abode is inhabited instead by imaginary characters dreamed up by Emilia Kabakov and her late husband, Ilya, both Russian-born artists who relocated to the US.
The piece is known as La Maison aux Personnages (The House of…
Arthouse Glasgow has launched a new annual award with The Glasgow School of Art, naming MFA student Kate Glenn as its inaugural recipient.
Lubaina Himid's Reading the Label transforms Cork Street into a public artwork exploring clothing, memory and identity
In 2015, Living Lenses added a public art installation titled Fault Whisper in Fault Line Park in East Village, San Diego. The installation consists of two metal spheres situated directly across from one another, and an accelerometer installed below the spheres in the fault rupture.
The accelerometer monitors the movements along the fault rupture and records the direction and amplitude of the…
The debut of French artist JR’s monumental public art project “La Caverne du Pont Neuf” has been postponed due to damage sustained by the artwork during bouts of high wind in Paris this week. The temporary installation, which drapes an inflatable printed canvas resembling a craggy, snow-covered rock face over the entirety of Pont Neuf […]
Two political appointees at the Treasury Department have been pushing for the manufacture of prototypes of a $250 bill with Trump’s face on it, The Washington Post reports. The artist who designed the mock-up of the bill, the British painter Iain Alexander, told the Post that he’d spoken to the president about the design, and […]
Recently, 'People Helping People,' a mosaic mural on a threatened Downtown building at 803 W. Michigan St., was honored with the Milwaukee County Historical Society's Public Art Award. Here's a look at the man behind the mural.
Ruth Ewan’s The Dagenham Agates will honour the Ford sewing machinists whose historic strikes helped shape the Equal Pay Act.
JR transforms Paris’ oldest bridge with La Caverne du Pont Neuf, a monumental public artwork paying tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs released its finalist shortlist for its planned public monument dedicated to legendary jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday. British sculptor Thomas J. Price and Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan are both among the top contenders, Artnet reported. Price’s proposal, entitled Held Within, features two radically […]
Gagosian presents Christo: Air, featuring rarely seen works alongside the first-ever realisation of Air Package on a Ceiling
What started as a surprise gesture for Jimmie Robinson's neighbor has become an ever-evolving public art project that delights children and adults and draws visitors from around the bay.
In 2000, Oslo was preparing for its millennium celebrations. During renovations of the City Hall (Rådhuset), it was discovered that one of the 49 bells was out of tune. The bell was promptly removed, and the original was placed in storage.
Twenty years later, the contemporary artist A K Dolven brought the bell back into public view. The 1.4 ton bell was strung on a 30 m cable at Honnørbrygga in…
Serpentine has revealed new details of its 2026 Pavilion by LANZA atelier. The 25th edition celebrates the legacy of Zaha Hadid.
The event turns Milwaukee's beaches into public art-centered festivals with giant inflatable sculptures, live music and other performances, hands-on art activities, food vendors, waterside s'mores and interactive experiences for all ages.
Sarah Lucas has unveiled VENUS VICTORIA a monumental work drawn from her iconic Bunny series.
Es Devlin’s new participatory artwork A National Portrait invites people across the UK to upload their portraits
Transport for London has enlisted Tracey Emin to front a new series of station announcements as part of its annual Priority Seating Week
The inflatable moon created by British artist Luke Jerram that debuted at Catalano Square in the Ward in 2019 is back as the main event at the Historic Third Ward's three-day Third Ward Moon Festival.
The waterfront of the beach promenade in Can Picafort is only partially suitable for swimming due to offshore rocks and a rugged transition from the coast to the sea. However, while taking a stroll, one notices the droll figures made of stone and cement, standing partly alone and partly in groups, directing their rigid gaze toward the sea or the land. The stylistically shaped figures appear…
The hulking sculpture _bLINK_ , unveiled in 2025 in Gothenburg, rises in vivid magenta above a railway bridge, sharply contrasting with the structure beneath it. At first glance, it could be mistaken for a coerced industrial relic, as if a chunk of infrastructure had been painted and left behind.
Created by German artist Katharina Grosse, the massive structure - roughly the size of a three-story…
At Kiwanis-Teledyne Park on Pine Lake in La Porte, Indiana, there are seven chimes, ranging from 7-9 feet tall, with two mallets on which a joyful noise can be made. A trained ear will instantly note that when striking these chimes, the pitch is one octave below middle C. They are considered contrabass, or double bass.
In 2017, the Joyful Noise Outdoor Instruments were installed as part of a…
The winners of the Fourth Plinth Schools Awards 2026 were announced today
The public artwork is known as 'Québec Libre!' or the 'Vaillancourt Fountain.'
The Rewind public seating at Willemsplein is a landmark example of circular design, repurposed from nine decommissioned wind turbine rotor blades that were originally destined for incineration.
Created by Superuse Studios, the installation utilizes the aerodynamic curves of the blades to provide diverse seating heights and ergonomic backrests, all anchored to blocks made from 90% recycled local…
Without the blessings of modern technology, it would likely be impossible to find this hidden gem. While there is a large signpost for the museum at the Port d’Alcúdia roundabout, the final five kilometers lead through a narrow, dusty lane riddled with potholes. The stone walls bordering the individual properties close in precariously; caution is advised, as scratches on a rental car are…
Hans Rosenström’s immersive sound installation Out of Silence transforms Four Freedoms Park into a contemplative, voice-led environment.
In Cincinnati, you can find some cool public kaleidoscopes at Smale Park. Here's a video of what it's like to use one of them. The kaleidoscope is locked in place, pointing at a lovely bed of flowers.
While the kaleidoscope stays in place, the bed of flowers rotates in a circle as fast as you choose to spin it. — Read the rest
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