A panel including the artist Richard Wentworth, art collector and patron Robert Hiscox and Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Director of Programmes Clare Lilley, have been debating who should fund public art and what its role should be.
Without warning or ceremony, yesterday Newport City Council demolished an historic Chartist mural in the city centre. Neil McNally, who has been involved in the campaign to save the mural, was there when it happened.
Kenneth Budd’s 35-metre long Chartist mural in Newport city centre took another step nearer to being demolished after the Welsh Government’s historic environment service rejected a bid to have the mural listed.
A shortlist of six artists has been announced for the next two Fourth Plinth commissions for Trafalgar Square.
The ten artists shortlisted for the Art Across the City 2014 Public Art Open Submission have been announced, ahead of the latest instalment of the 2013 programme in Swansea next month.
A series of recently unveiled artworks commissioned for Cardiff Airport hope to improve its battered image and help promote tourism, business and the Welsh economy.
Followers of @an_artnews composed over 100 tweets in a lively debate sparked by the Art Everywhere project.
The UK-wide Art Everywhere project, which sees art on billboards and posters across the country, has been launched at an event in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Today saw the unveiling of the new commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square – and as usual the sculpture has ruffled a few feathers.
Two years on from the Oslo terrorist attacks, as an international competition for a memorial to the events is launched, Claire Doherty, Director of Situations, considers the implications of such a brief.
In the run up to Edinburgh Art Festival, Gordon Dalton speaks to some of the artists participating in this year’s tenth-anniversary edition, as well as Director Sorcha Carey about the impact of the publicly-sited commissions.
A site-specific art trail opens this weekend in one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries. We find out more from project curator Jane Millar.
The UK is set to become the ‘world’s largest outdoor gallery’ this summer as art will be on display across tens of thousands of billboards up and down the country.
Locus+ is celebrating 20 years of innovative visual arts projects and publications by launching its first ever fund-raising Print Portfolio at the Venice Biennale. We find out more from Director and Founder Jon Bewley.
While the measles outbreak has been getting all the headlines, Swansea’s Art Across The City has been brightening up the place with a series of works in the public realm. We sent Cardiff-based artist Kathryn Ashill back to her hometown for a guided tour.
In a time of austerity, it’s become more important than ever for the visual arts to articulate their value to society. But, asks Claire Doherty, Director of arts producers Situations, what forms of evidence should be produced and whose criteria are we to use?
An Arts Council England Grants for the arts award is enabling the volunteer-run Macclesfield Barnaby Festival to develop a series of site-specific art commissions over two years.
Egyptian-born Sam Shendi has won the FIRST@108 Public Art Award, receiving £10,000 towards the cost of producing his large-scale sculpture.
A new report from public art think tank ixia highlights a significant fall in the size and value of the sector in England.
The artist Bob and Roberta Smith believes that the withdrawal from sale of Banksy’s Slave Labour mural sends a clear message about art in the public realm, from graffiti to Henry Moore sculptures.
In partnership with ixia, artist Hannah Hull is presenting a series of events in Newcastle, Bristol and Birmingham for socially-engaged artists who want to be part of a ‘hyper-local critical support network’.
Mark Wallinger has unveiled a series of 270 works that will hang in each station of the London Underground.
Over two years since it was commissioned, Anthony McCall’s contribution to Artists Taking the Lead is yet to materialise. But beyond the obvious issues around public funding and value, what does a project like this say about contemporary art and its relationship to audiences?
A new award invites artists to use creative technologies to ‘surprise, challenge and engage audiences’.
Beacon Art Projects Lincolnshire commissioned artists to create work for historic rural sites during October. We report from the launch.
