public art

Bosco Sodi unveils colossal ‘city of cubes’ on the Oaxacan coast

Artists have long tried to draw a connection between our physical plane and the enigmatic beyond. A new land art work by Bosco Sodi is perhaps among the most ambitious endeavours yet – if not the most colossal. The Mexican...

The outdoor art installations defining public spaces in 2019

Desert X returns to the Coachella Valley

Amid the white energy windmills, wild lupines sprout up across the dry desert Coachella Valley, bringing new life and a pop of colour to greater Palm Springs. Now, the second iteration of the biannual art event Desert X contributes its invasion of mythical...

Pantone offers a taste of its 2019 Color of the Year in pop-up pantry installation

Pantone revealed its 2019 Color of the Year – the ‘life-affirming’ shade of Living Coral – with the debut of a multi-sensory installation at the Royal Palm South Beach resort during Art Basel Miami Beach. The global authority on colour...

Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Ice Watch’ confronts Londoners with the realities of climate change

It’s a brisk 1°C on London’s Southbank. The sun has just touched the Switch House, and is hastily creeping towards 24 ice boulders arranged at the front of Tate Modern. They’re already melting. Great blue-white tears collect in sad puddles...

Tomás Saraceno’s aerosolar sculptures take flight in Miami

The unveiling of Tomás Saraceno’s latest artwork during Art Basel Miami got off to an inauspicious start when inclement weather conditions forced the inaugural flight demonstration to be postponed. And yet, it only served to highlight the pressing environmental issues...

The postwar public art that became a symbol of the British modernist dream

It’s not hard to determine where fine art photographer Simon Phipps’ expertise lies. With previous publications entitled Brutal London, Finding Brutalism and even a Brutalist London map under his belt, one could say his subject is somewhat cast in concrete. For his...

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...

Jeweller Shaun Leane upscales to gild the façade of a London apartment block

Arbour, Shaun Leane’s latest piece, has a seemingly random nature to it. It comprises a monumental façade of sculpted brass branches and leaves that appear to sway around a new residential development in Kensington in west London. As a jeweller...

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...

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...

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...