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Holly Hendry presents Slackwater as part of the (Un)monumenting programme series at NDSM, alongside Sunset in Amsterdam by Mike Rijnierse and Ludmila Rodrigues.

Hulda Guzmán's 'The Haircut' is on view at the Artspace Project Wall. Initiated by Kansas City Art Institute, the Project Wall is an ongoing site for temporary public art projects by contemporary artists.

Clare Woods designed a large scale, site-specific, watercolour mural for River Bend, a re-development project in the Design District of Dallas, Texas.

'Slackwater' is Holly Hendry's first public commission in London, and her largest to date. The site-specific work occupies the terrace on the roof of Temple Underground station.

'Lip-sync' is a major new permanent public artwork for Birmingham by Holly Hendry commissioned by Birmingham City University and curated by Eastside Projects.

Reborn Art Festival is an arts and culture festival inaugurated during the summer of 2017 in one of the regions hardest hit by the triple disaster that devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan in 2011. Artworks created by renowned artists from Japan and around the world in collaboration with local people are exhibited in the Ishinomaki and Oshika areas.

The sixth edition of ‘A Summer in Le Havre’ features several temporary large-scale art installations and a curated programme of events. Highlights include a ‘half-man, half-woman being’ by Japanese sculptor Izumi Kato, set in the tree-lined square of Saint-Vincent church. Also on view is ‘Apparitions’ by German artist Stephan Balkenhol, a permanent installation of figures displayed on the facades of the city’s Perret Buildings.

‘Wind Sculpture in Bronze I’ by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is the third permanent sculpture presented to Royal Djurgården by Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland's cultural foundation. The two metre sculpture, rendered in steel and fibreglass, captures the shifting movement of wind passing through Shonibare's signature Dutch wax batik fabric on a dramatic scale.

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald’s acclaimed and historically important portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama go on display in association with Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

In celebration of Black History Month, Brooklyn Academy of Music presents ‘Let Freedom Ring Vol. 2’, the second edition of a digital billboard-based series exploring the meaning of freedom in 2021. Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, the new installation of the public art project features artwork from Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Jordan Casteel, Kevin Claiborne, Lizania Cruz, Deborah Roberts, Amy Sherald, and Jasmine Wahi.

A captivating public sculpture by Tom Friedman, 'Looking Up', 2020 is now on view in midtown New York City at the entrance of Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens, 5th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets. 

'Material (SG) II', by Yinka Shonibare CBE, which forms part of the artist’s 'Wind Sculpture' series, will be unveiled in 2021 at the outdoor plaza at the new office building, 360 Rosemary. The sculpture was commissioned in collaboration with Related Companies, The West Palm Beach Art in Public Places (AiPP) Program and city of West Palm Beach. 

Public Art Fund was invited by Empire State Development to develop and direct a program of ambitious art installations for three prominent sites within the new Moynihan Train Hall, to be launched in January 2021. These very different commissions, by Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Kehinde Wiley, demonstrate each artist’s ingenuity and vision.

Jim Hodges' new mirrored-glass artwork is now on view above the busiest entrance at Grand Central Station. Located near the 42 Street entrance, on the landing and mezzanine levels of the stairs and escalator that connect Grand Central Terminal with the subway station, the expansive work is comprised of over 5,000 pieces of glass in more than 70 different colours. 

Claire Barclay has been commissioned by Tideway, London to create artworks for the new public realm site at Putney. In response to the heritage theme ‘Recreation to Industry: Society in Transition', Barclay has developed a series of three works: three bronze oars to be incorporated into the foreshore balustrade in the form of lengths of handrail; text integrated within the inlaid University Boat Race (UBR) marker line in the form of raised cast lettering; and a graphic pattern waterjet cut into the granite walling of the foreshore kiosk.

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE’s new work 'Wind Sculpture (SG) V' has been installed in a contemplative garden of The Greenway Public Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

In response to the current crisis, Barts Health NHS Trust is upgrading existing Staff Rooms and creating new areas in which clinical staff can find rest and respite. Aligning with these developments, charitably funded initiative #100NHSRooms was launched to support the wellbeing of both patients and hospital employees by bringing new artworks to 100 rooms across Barts Health, including St Bartholomew’s, Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham Hospital. 

Yinka Shonibare CBE's monumental work 'Wind Sculpture (SG) IV' is on display near Spelman Halls at Princeton University through May 2020. Made from industrial materials usually used in the construction of buildings,...

Black artists explore spirituality and culture in 'Afrocosmologies: American Reflections'. Alongside artists of the late-nineteenth century, contemporary artists define new ideas about spirituality, identity, and the environment in ways that move beyond...

'Quarta-Feira de Cinzas / Epilogue' 2006 is currently on display in Room 1 of 'Start Display' in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 2 as part of the permanent collection at Tate...