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Art on Location is a special focus on outdoor art experiences, with news, features and archive content covering public art, sculpture parks, urban and country house sculpture shows, artist's trails, and the use of location-specific technology
Goodwood contemporary: Rachel Whiteread to headline new foundation’s first exhibition at Sussex woodland site
The artist’s sculpture and photography will feature at Goodwood Art Foundation, the ducal estate that once nurtured the work of George Stubbs and Canaletto, alongside semi-permanent installations by Veronica Ryan and Hélio Oiticica
Silent echoes: flame and frost meet in Bill Fontana’s latest sound installation
Artist brings together recordings made in an Austrian ice cave and on the surface of a giant historic bell at Notre-Dame de Paris
Khaleb Brooks wins commission for London’s transatlantic slavery memorial
London Mayor backs new work, which will be unveiled in 2026, with £500,000 funding
George Rickey sculpture partially collapses outside News Corp's New York headquarters
One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher
‘We want people to have fun’: Dulwich Picture Gallery’s director on the institution’s new sculpture park
The London museum has embarked on a £5m redevelopment that will see its grounds filled with contemporary sculpture and versatile family spaces
Sculpture parks in the US
Arlene Shechet’s sculptures are animated through dance at Storm King sculpture park
Ritualistic performance piece by Annie-B Parson amid monumental, brightly coloured steel sculptures marks Upstate Art Weekend in New York’s Hudson Valley
The US sculpture park communicating difficult truths amid a cultural backlash
In a time of increased lawsuits over diversity initiatives, a civil rights organisation aims to make the history and legacy of slavery in the US undeniable through art and first-person narratives
From the archive | 'Trying to tap into the memory of the place'—as Storm King turns 60, artists reflect on the storied outdoor art centre
Beyond its visually rapturous value, the Storm King region also had a pivotal but lesser-known role in the development of US environmental law and policy
From the archive | artists turn Montana ranch into vast open-air sculpture and music centre
Tippet Rise Art Center is due to open in the Beartooth Mountains in June
From the archive | a first glimpse of Storm King Art Center’s $45m redesign
The celebrated upstate New York sculpture park will begin an overhaul of its grounds to enhance visitor experience and biodiversity
Public art
From the Colossus of Rhodes to Michelangelo's "David" in Florence's main square to Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square, to Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate in Chicago, public sculpture has been an unavoidable part of city life over three millennia
From the archive | ‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year
Giant pigeon sculpture will land on New York's High Line this autumn
Iván Argote’s hyperrealist aluminium aviary statue will be perched on the High Line Plinth from October
Although it is a ‘sumptuous’ tome, this survey of contemporary public art from around the world baffles at times
The self-proclaimed atlas gives voice to works from often overlooked global-majority cultures but tends to favour mainstream over more challenging works
Tree-planting project memorialising Black lives lost brings 40,000 trees to urban centres across the US
The community-driven living monument from MIT Media Lab’s Poetic Justice will include an evolving, digitally networked story archive
New public art projects to coincide with Democratic National Convention
Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid
Artist's trail: Vincent van Gogh
The Art Newspaper's special correspondent Martin Bailey selects four of his acclaimed blogs on Vincent van Gogh that serve as an art lover's trail to where the artist lived and worked
An insider’s travel guide to Van Gogh's Arles
Follow in the artist’s footsteps and discover the places that inspired his greatest paintings
Van Gogh’s astonishingly bold painting of the church at Auvers, now on show in Amsterdam
The picture exudes spirituality, but after the artist shot himself, its priest refused to help bury him
Van Gogh paints by the River Seine, a stepping stone to Provence
A revelatory exhibition in Amsterdam on Vincent’s landscapes from the outskirts of Paris—along with those of his avant-garde colleagues
Van Gogh’s Starry Night is back in Arles, revealing more of its mysteries
Visitors can also go to the spot where he stood his easel, enjoy the riverside view—and see how the artist transformed the scene into one of his best-loved paintings
Country house sculpture
Castle Howard: stage set for Bridgerton and Brideshead, and now for a full-dress Tony Cragg show
The Liverpool-born sculptor's 50-year engagement with organic, layered, forms works in natural harmony with the Yorkshire treasure house and its Arcadian grounds
From the archive | A shared pride: the Rothschilds yesterday, today and tomorrow
Jacob, Lord Rothschild, is one of the great benefactors of the English museum scene in both time and money
Exo architecture
From the 1977 Pompidou Centre in Paris to the massive 2023 Sphere in Las Vegas, the exterior expression of some art-world structures has completely changed the character of their neighbourhood, and how people engage with it
Tipping point: how new immersive institutions are changing the art world
Digital art venues are a global phenomenon, attracting massive audiences with radical new forms of immersive experiences. Are they a threat or an opportunity for traditional galleries and museums?
From the archive | The art machine: the Centre Pompidou at 40
As the Parisian cultural behemoth hits a landmark anniversary, figures from the world of art and architecture discuss its legacy
Exploring the rise and fall of British architectural sculpture
A timely study examines the unique confluence of artists and architects in British buildings from the 1850s to the 1950s
From the archive | Twenty years on: how the Guggenheim Bilbao came of age
Against the odds, Spain's US-branded museum has drawn more than 20 million visitors since it opened in 1997
Memorial art
Sculptures and installations to commemorate dead politicians, monarchs and poets or the victims of brutality, war and genocide have long attracted a vivid mix of criticism, veneration and public outrage
UK government commits to building national Holocaust memorial in London
Keir Starmer’s Labour administration is reintroducing a bill that will allow the monument and accompanying learning centre to be built, after the project was challenged in the courts
Bicentenary appeal seeks to move Byron memorial to prominent site in London's Hyde Park
Group launches £360,000 fund to re-site 1880 statue isolated on UK capital's roundabout
From the archive | how MacDonald Gill's lettering provides an egalitarian monument to the British and Commonwealth fallen of two world wars
The first biography of ‘Max’ Gill reveals the versatile talent of an artist who was a master of lettering and murals and a standout mapmaker-artist
From the archive | world’s oldest war memorial may have been identified in Syria
The White Monument at Tell Banat contains the bones of what are believed to be around 30 dead soldiers, posed as if they fell in battle
Land Art
The artist Judy Chicago and the late patron and art dealer Virginia Dwan have stood out as women leaders in a world of Land Art long dominated by male artists such as Michael Heizer, James Turrell and the late Robert Smithson
An expert's guide to Land Art: five must-read books on art and the environment
Books that make connections between art and the current climate crisis, chosen by the curator and author Ben Tufnell
From the archive | Michael Heizer’s City, a vast art project in the Nevada desert 50 years in the making finally opens to the public
The artist’s sprawling gesamtkunstwerk has been described as the largest contemporary artwork on earth, evoking the scale of Mesoamerican cities and Indigenous burial mounds
Remembering Virginia Dwan: champion of land artists and the US's first bicoastal gallerist
Hugely influential art dealer whose galleries in Los Angeles and New York launched Minimalism and Land Art in the US
From the archive: Nevada Museum of Art acquires Judy Chicago’s full 'fireworks' archive
The museum aims to rewrite the legacy of the historically male-dominated Land Art movement
From the archive | James Turrell will unveil another Skyspace this year in the Colorado mountains
The permanent work will be installed on a hillside in Green Mountain Falls later this summer
Location-specific technology
Campaigners and curators are increasingly using location-specific technology to repatriate looted objects virtually or to generate virtual memorials to improve the representation of all communities
Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
From the archive | Black Lives Matter murals—can truly public art exist on private platforms powered by private algorithms?
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
