Opinion
The Sculpture of a "Fearless Girl" on Wall Street Is Fake Corporate Feminism
The bronze statue installed by an advertising firm and a financial firm represents basically everything that’s wrong with our society.
Public Art
In Brief
Financial Firm Plants Statue in Front of Wall Street Bull for International Women’s Day
"Fearless Girl" was installed on the eve of International Women's Day as part of a call on the financial industry to put more women in leadership positions.
News
Six Years After the Christchurch Earthquake, a Homegrown Memorial Faces an Uncertain Future
As the official memorial to victims of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake is unveiled, an unofficial but beloved installation commemorating the dead remains in limbo.
Art
Ann Hamilton's Portraits that Blur and Isolate
For a commission at the University of Texas at Austin, Hamilton photographed over 500 people at locations around the city through sheets of milky, semi-opaque Duraflex.
Art
The Hague’s City Hall Gets a Mondrian Makeover for De Stijl’s Centennial
A giant homage to the most iconic Dutch modern art movement debuted today in The Hague.
Art
Gilded Age Statues Return to the Manhattan Bridge, Now with Kinetic Illumination
Brian Tolle's new public sculpture features two long-lost guardians of the Manhattan Bridge, now illuminating its Brooklyn entrance.
In Brief
Japan Recalls Its South Korean Envoys Over “Comfort Women” Sculpture
An ongoing dispute over a statue commemorating South Korean victims of the Japanese imperial army's sex slavery has escalated, with Japan summoning its ambassador and a consul general back to Tokyo.
In Brief
A Protest Monument to Victims of Sex Slavery May Become Permanent
Municipal officials in Busan returned a statue it had originally confiscated after protesters erected it next to the Japanese consulate as a tribute to the thousands of Korean women forced into Japanese military brothels.
Art
From Chuck Close to Sarah Sze, a Ride Through the Art of the Second Avenue Subway
New York's Second Avenue Subway opened on January 1 after almost a century of planning, with new art installations by Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Vik Muniz, and Jean Shin.
Art
Setting Aluminum Animals Loose on the Streets of Detroit
On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.
News
Did an Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpture Really Make 17 FBI Agents Sick?
A towering cedar sculpture by the world-renowned artist is being blamed for the hospitalization of over a dozen employees at the FBI's Miami field office.
Art
All Is Not as It Seems in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Sculpture Park
Many of the works in the mega-fair's public art sector mess with visitors' expectations of what outdoor sculptures and monuments should be and can do.