public art

Art / 2 Jul 2018

The outdoor art installations not to miss in 2018

From sculptures you can slide down, to gravity-defying installations, we bring you the best of the world’s art making its mark en plein air...

Art / 22 Jun 2018

Christo on his monumental floating sculpture for Serpentine Lake

An 83-year-old Christo was late to our interview in February. He was busy traipsing across Kensington Gardens, battling sideways rain, scouting potential locations for The London Mastaba, which was officially unveiled this week in Hyde Park. The giant public sculpture...

Inside the Elizabeth Tube line under construction

Architecture / 21 May 2018

Crossrail shifts seven million tonnes of earth to make London more connected

London’s Farringdon Station is about to break into the infrastructural big time, becoming a key interchange on the world’s oldest and most prestigious transport network. With the coming of the Crossrail project and its Elizabeth line, this historic stop on...

Architecture / 16 Mar 2018

Peckham’s creativity reaches a higher level in a multistorey car park

The high street is dead – long live the multistorey car park. In the fun-and-gritty south London neighbourhood of Peckham, seven levels of a car park have been reinvented as a creative and entertainment hub. The car park already had...

Art / 5 Sep 2017

Sea change: artists make waves at the 2017 Folkestone Triennial

To many born and in bred in Folkestone, their hometown is becoming more and more like a little London by the sea – for better or worse. As city folk descend, house prices rise, and empty second homes stand skeletal...

Art / 17 Aug 2016

Street talk: an exhibition of language-inspired sculpture takes over New York’s City Hall Park

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then surely an exhibition of public art clocks is somewhere in the tens of thousands. Maybe more. For ’Language of Things’, a group exhibition that made its debut earlier this summer, words...

Architecture / 7 Jul 2016

Running up that hill: a tumulous new park opens on NY’s Governors Island

With its verdant greenery and unparalleled views, stepping onto Governors Island feels like a departure from New York City entirely, making it a destination for locals and tourists alike. But the 172-acre island and abandoned military base in the heart...

Art / 10 Jun 2016

In flight entertainment: Duke Riley’s ’Fly By Night’ casts pigeons as the star

While pigeons aren’t exactly greeted with open arms in New York — often fondly referred to locally as ‘rats of the sky’ — artist Duke Riley has found a way to elevate the common urban fowl via ’Fly by Night’...

Art / 10 Jun 2016

Public art pioneer: Poul Gernes at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Danish constructivist Poul Gernes and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark have had a fractious relationship over the years. In 1970, during the now scandalised ’Tabernakel’ exhibition, ’Gernes and three close allies of the Experimental School drove a Trojan...

Art / 12 May 2016

Magic mountains: Ugo Rondinone’s modern totems liven up the Nevada desert

The Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art are currently presenting their latest venture, ’Seven Magic Mountains’, by Swiss-born artist Ugo Rondinone. The large-scale desert installation has been constructed and installed near Las Vegas and consists of seven monumental...

Art / 13 Apr 2016

Outdoors in: graffiti artist Maser stages his first solo show at Lazarides in London

Irish-born graffiti artist Maser was given his name by mates at the pub when he was fifteen – and it just stuck. This accidental moniker is now at the centre of the global public art scene. Last summer, Maser was...

Art / 19 Oct 2015

New world: artist Dustin Yellin unveils his first outdoor installation in LA

About a year and a half ago, the Kilroy Realty Corporation approached Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin about permanently installing six of his increasingly popular Psychogeographies in Columbia Square, the plaza outside the 1938 CBS Headquarters, which will re-open this month as...