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Alan Morris/Alamy Scotland’s first memorial sculpture dedicated to NHS staff who worked through the covid-19 pandemic has been voted the best in the UK. Your Next Breath —created by Kenny Hunter and commissioned by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh—was last week named this year’s …

An Inverclyde public artwork is in the running for a top sculpture award.

Art world figures, meanwhile, have continued to question the relevance of the approach

Bake Off judge, who campaigned to use Trafalgar Square space for contemporary art, says it’s not prominent enough for monarch

From Mount Rushmore to Lenins statue at Saint Petersburg’s Finland Station, political legacies have long been carved into stone, literally. But sometimes the vanity or silliness driving such projects turns them into monumental WTFs. That was undoubtedly the case last month in the U.S. state of Geor

  A widespread refrain around public sculpture points to an absence of women – or at least to the fact that there is insufficient representation of women – among the figurative images in Irish public spaces, where statues of men predominate. Yet across the western world there are innumerable images of women in the public squares and streets. Is there any public statue that is more widely known and loved than the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in New York? When th...

National Gallery Seeks Architect For 200th Birthday Revamp The National Gallery has announced it is seeking a multi-disciplinary design team to work with it on a suite of capital projects to mark its Bicentenary, with an initial phase to be opened in 2024. A welcome experience befitting a world-class institution The National Gallery wants to remodel both its grade I-listed buildings ahead of its 200th anniversary. The project has a construction budget of between £25m and £30m, while the desig...

In January, the City of London announced that it would take down and re-sited the statue of William Beckford in Guildhall. Beckford, who was a two-time Lord Mayor of London in the late 1700s, accrued wealth from plantations in Jamaica and held African slaves Photo: Stephencdickson The UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden will stoke the debate raging over controversial historic monuments by telling museum and heritage leaders later this month that they “must defend our cultur...

The statue of a former Lord Mayor of London should not be taken down but rather kept in place to educate future generations about the evils of slavery, a campaign group said on Monday.