public art

Strange and striking: David Breuer-Weil’s new public artwork

Writing in The Observer, Rowan Moore lists his top ten public artworks around Britiain. As one might expect, London is home to a number of them, but what makes Moore’s list stand out is his mixture of the very familiar with some less known finds …

Love it or hate it, the redeveloped Spitalfields Market has certainly been a welcoming space for public sculpture. Off the top of our heads, we recall the giant clay pipe thing, the pointy red church piece, some mis-aligned granite blocks, a memorial to the Civil …

London Olympics 2012 Handover party by Orhan Tsolak The Cultural Olympiad is a vast and sprawling beast of an idea, attempting to gear up the entire country into a participative cultural and sporting frenzy ahead of 2012. Artists Taking The Lead is one of the …

And so begin the Olympic public art participatory opportunities! Station House Opera are creating a massively long domino rally across the five Olympic boroughs on Sunday 26th July and they need your help. If you can be available for 4 hours that afternoon then, apart …

Not content with sticking naked iron casts of himself all over London, now Gormley gets a go at that fourth plinth this summer and this time he’s opting for real people. 2,400 real people taking an hour’s turn elevated in the north west corner of …

The anonymous crowds of Trafalgar Square continue to provide inspiration to artists intent on introducing us to one another. Last month we were sending out smoke signals through the Memory Cloud; coming up this month, we (or the 200 of us filmed earlier at the …

It seemed the debate over Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth was settled: after Boris’ election pledge to install a statue of Sir Keith Park was shot down, the space would continue to home modern art. But perhaps not: Prospect magazine reckons Westminster council plans to erect …

Image courtesy of randydandy via the Londonist Flickr pool Right, so Gothamist isn’t returning our phone calls, and we can only assume that they’re not going to take us up on our Telectroscope dance challenge. Chickens. Dance-off or not, we wanted to check out the …

Archiving is so important these days. Here’s our vision of the ideal place to display former Fourth Plinth occupants. ‘Old Stumpy’ next to Blackfriars Bridge provides twelve storage pedestals for the growing collection of erstwhile Trafalgar Square plinthians. And how about employing Battersea Power Station’s …