Live & Public Art
From Antony Gormley's Angel of the North to the Fourth Plinth, Live and Public Art has never been more visible. Track this modern phenomenon here with Culture24 news, reviews, event listings, websites and resources drawn from the art and gallery world.
French artist Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves's Geometry brightens Brentford with ray of light
Mayor of London Boris Johnson hails a "dramatic beacon for Brentford" as planners boost the town's status as a "significant cultural destination" with a major installation.
New Art Gallery revisits Jacob Epstein's Hyde Park Monstrosity
New Art Gallery Walsall is revisiting the controversy that surrounded Jacob Epstein's design for a memorial to WH Hudson in Hyde Park by taking a closer look at his sketches.
Elmgreen and Dragset prepare for Fourth Plinth invasion
Danish-Norwegian pairing Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are about to unleash their latest invention on London's Trafalgar Square.
Abandoned buildings make for eerie The Near and the Elsewhere at PM Gallery and House
The stories behind the buildings abandoned during the global economic downturn are told through photography, painting, film and installation in London.
"Obsessive, mordant and morbid" Glamourie sends 26 artists to Project Space Leeds
Handmade hurdy-gurdy and giant cardboard heads as 26 contemporary British artists are brought together in a new exhibition at Project Space Leeds.
Bus-Tops to turn shelters across London into art for Cultural Olympiad
Run by the group Art Public following a hotly-contested open submission call, a nine-month project as part of the the Olympics will turn bus stops into platforms for public art.
Gallery of Modern Art's "unprecedented" Niki de Saint Phalle haul to entertain Glasgow
A newly-secured collection of 15 works by flamboyant French sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle are expected to go on display in Glasgow at the end of 2013.
Connect10: Meet the ten artists in the Museums at Night 2012 competition
Culture24's new project for Museums at Night, Connect10, matches ten contemporary artists with ten museums and galleries for a series of special one-off Museums at Night events over the weekend of......
Banksy's mutilated priest head revealed in Walker Art Gallery coup
Banksy's latest work, which takes an 18th century stone bust of a priest and "pixelates" its face with glued-on bath tiles, looks certain to provoke controversy as it goes on show in the Old Master......
Antony Gormley bears Witness at British Library
Antony Gormley's cast iron chair outside the entrance to the British Library celebrates the 90th birthday of English PEN and salutes writers in dangerous situations.
Roger Hiorns smuggles anti-psychotic drugs into US Air Force aircraft for Sculpture Show
In a Scottish National Gallery of Modern art show also featuring works by Ron Mueck, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Martin Boyce, engine fan Roger Hiorns embeds three types of drugs into the......
Street Art and Tags not Labels shows unite Banksy with Belfast's finest at Ulster Museum
The V&A's touring show of works by the likes of Banksy and Gorillaz animator Jamie Hewlett accompanies designs from four of Belfast's best street artists in a daring double-bill.
Giant spirit sculpture made of more than 1,000 mirror mosaics takes over St Christopher's
Three years in the making and at a cost of £150,000, a two-metre luminous statue over St Christopher's Place becomes the 12th in a set of major central London sculptures.
National Portrait Gallery works the Late Shift
Live harpists, DJs, drop-in drawing sessions and philosophy salons inside rooms full of 18th and 19th century art - the National Portrait Gallery's weekly late openings offer an unusual way to end......
In Pictures: How American artist James Yamada can help you beat the winter blues
As part of London gallery Parasol Unit's Parasolstice season, American artist James Yamada has made a dramatic installation, The Summer Shelter Retreats Darkly Among the Trees, which could help you......
