#public-art

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What should Oshawa's arts and culture sector look like 10 years from now? That's a question city staff are asking the public as they prepare to create a new culture plan a roadmap intended to guide Oshawa's next decade of action to support cultural initiatives. This will be the city's second culture plan, replacing one that's been in place since 2014, says Catherine Richards, the city's senior manager of special events and culture.

What makes this work so compelling is how it plays with reflection and perception. The polished aluminum surface doesn't just sit there looking pretty. It actively engages with its surroundings, capturing the shifting desert light, the blue Egyptian sky, and the ancient stones in a constantly changing display. Depending on where you stand and what time of day you visit, you're basically looking at a different artwork. It's responsive design taken to a literal, sculptural extreme.

The 100 metre long Falcon Road underpass runs under the railways to the eastern side of Clapham Junction station and is the only route north-south under the railways in the area. Despite how busy it is, it's quite a shabby route, with two narrow pedestrian paths, the walls lined with stained and broken tiles, and the floor covered in pigeon droppings.

Rotary International's No. 1 focus area is promoting peace, so Mrs. Brandenburg couldn't have brought us a better project.

New York's community gardens have always been tiny pockets of magic-places where tomatoes, neighbors and the occasional rogue pigeon can peacefully coexist. Now they're bird sanctuaries of a more artistic kind, thanks to 21 freshly painted murals unveiled this week across gardens in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. The project, a collaboration between the National Audubon Society, , GreenThumb and Gitler &_____ Gallery , splashes 24 climate-threatened bird species (plus more than 30 native plants) across walls, sheds and fences citywide.

In an eight-to-five vote on Monday (3 November), the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) voted to disassemble Armand Vaillancourt's namesake fountain. Two days prior, the San Francisco Chronicle that San Francisco Recreation and Park Department (RPD) officials stated the fountain posed an "an immediate and serious hazard" and would propose dismantling the monumental fountain and storing it for up to three years, at a cost of $4.4m.

Palo Alto's recent Code:ART, a free, biennial interactive media art festival, reminds us of the breadth, depth and impact of public art in cities across our county. Code:ART transformed downtown Palo Alto into a vibrant playground of light, sound and imagination, reimagining the city's downtown streets, plazas and alleyways into a luminous landscape.

As global temperatures increase annually, communities across the world are facing the troubling fact that their infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists. Offering a glimpse of the potential issues to comae, residents of Phoenix, Arizona-the hottest city in the US, and fifth-largest-are grappling with life-threatening conditions, including recent reports of heatstroke and burns affecting its community of unhoused individuals.

"I'm not so interested in the expression of something. I'm more interested in what the material can do. So that's why I keep exploring," said artist, educator, and civic leader Ruth Asawa, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts the artist's lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works.

$4,500 Artist GrantsFeatured The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants, totaling $13,000. Two artists will each receive $4,500, and four artists will each receive $1,000. This is an international open call, and all visual media are eligible. The prize provides a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30-artist shortlist, online journal, and Instagram, currently reaching over 150,000.

Seven major artists will transform JFK's new $9.5 billion terminal into a soaring showcase of New York creativity. The journey through JFK's new Terminal One will be more gallery walk than security slog. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New Terminal One just unveiled an ambitious public art and cultural program that turns the $9.5 billion international terminal, set to open in phases beginning 2026, into a full-on love letter to New York.

Open to the public since May 10, 2025, the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale has entered its final month before closing on November 23. Curated by Italian architect Carlo Ratti, this edition, titled "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective." has brought together over 750 participants across 65 national pavilions and 11 collateral events, making it one of the most expansive editions in the Biennale's history.

From school buildings to warehouses to freeway underpasses and beyond, Oakland's landscape is home to a rich tapestry of street art that contributes to the city's vibrancy, reflects its values, and tells the stories of the diverse communities who live here. Get tickets On Thursday, Nov. 13, from 6:30-8pm at The New Parkway Theater, our arts and community reporter Azucena Rasilla will host a conversation with three local artists who've played a key part in creating some of the city's most iconic murals.

This is Greenwich's famous Painted Hall, and at the moment it's also home to a light display by the artist Peter Walker. It's surprisingly calming, helped along by soft ambient music that fills the space. Tall pillars of coloured light rise and fade, creating a gentle effect that you can simply settle into and enjoy. There's something of the "sensory room" about it - soothing visuals scaled up to cathedral-like proportions.

Momotaro, named for the popular Japanese folklore hero who is also often translated as "Peach Boy," was a gift from San Jose's oldest sister city, Okayama, Japan. The relationship between the cities was established in 1957, and the replica of the bronze statue that guards Okayama Station has stood in Guadalupe River Park near the Center for the Performing Arts since 1993. The statue depicts the boy and his dog, monkey and pheasant companions who go on a quest to defeat a band of ogres,

Twenty hand-painted fiberglass spheres have quietly appeared throughout the neighborhood as part of Walk to the Water 2.0: Hudson Square Storyline , a new public art installation unveiled this week by the Hudson Square Business Improvement District. Created in collaboration with illustrator and data-visualization designer Jenny Goldstick, the project transforms more than 100 stories collected from locals-residents, office workers and business owners-into swirling, data-driven artworks.

In a city filled with buses, subways, cabs and pedicabs, there's a new kind of transit in town-but you can't ride this one, just admire it. A 30-foot pink carriage drawn by white plastic horses carrying Hello Kitty backpacks now sits in the middle of Times Square as part of an art installation by Yvette Mayorga called Magic Grasshopper. The striking piece-decked out with smiley face designs, pink suitcases and lowrider gold rims-also includes painterly scenes of migration as a way to challenge European art historical tropes.

For 2025, the landmark's Christmas illuminations will be inspired by paintings by Gustavo Zuluaga Villegas, a Colombian-born amateur artist and a member of the Shard's housekeeping team. The 65-year-old amateur painter has worked at the Shard for eight years, but in his spare time creates vibrant abstract impressionist paintings, depicting everything from horses, to still life to abstract shapes.

The high-profile street artist KAWS will take centre stage in a major Abu Dhabi public art initiative launching next month. KAWS'S work-which shows the artist's signature Companian figure reclining on its back while lifting a lit moon in its hands-will feature in the second edition of Manar Abu Dhabi. The exhibition of light works takes its name from the Arabic for "light" or "guiding light".

and I demonstrate how art can gently tip the scales back toward harmony. Think of visual art as a toolkit to soothe the mind and spirit. Every day, we are inundated with imagery urging us to work harder, buy more ... and never stop. Art offers the exact opposite. It slows and calms us down, sharpens our critical thinking, nurtures happiness, and helps us resist the endless cycle of consumption.

She says she's learned so much about the city just by using the bus as inspiration for her outings. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SFMTA (@sfmta_muni) Daisy gives credits to the followers she's gained along her journey who flock to her account offering tips on where to visit next. She says she's discovered that having the bus as common ground sparks real conversation.

This month, urban centers around the world are hosting a massive public art project helmed by Nōvo Collective. uncommissioned has tapped 54 artists for a global initiative that sees the city as a playground, inviting participants "to slip playful, overlooked, or quietly defiant gestures into the cracks of everyday life." In Stellenbosch, South Africa, Strijdom van der Merwe installed sun-activated text works displaying heady phrases like "the visible is a shadow cast by the invisible."

The bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher by the sculptor Douglas Jennings has a rating of 2.8 out of five on Google Maps. Although curiously, none of the reviewers seems to have overly preoccupied themselves with the quality of the craftsmanship or the fidelity of the likeness. One of the most important PMs this country ever had, writes one. It's a public toilet but there's nowhere to wash your hands, writes another.

The monumental green figure of Kermit the Frog is set to soon take flight above the stately facades of Place Vendôme as part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program. From October 20th to 26th, 2025, Alex Da Corte's artwork will occupy the sky, transforming the historic square into an unlikely stage for a scene of comic melancholy. Presented by Sadie Coles HQ, the project takes the form of an enormous helium-filled inflatable, a towering, 19.75-meter-long effigy of the beloved Muppet icon.

Canterbury Cathedral has drawn the attention of some unexpected critics for its unconventional new art installation. Featuring graffiti-style stickers answering the question "What would you ask God?", the display intends to creatively broadcast earnest questions of faith, but some think the installation is in poor taste. While graffiti fonts will always be divisive thanks to their historical connection with vandalism, views have shifted over the decades as street art has become a legitimised genre of contemporary design.

For more than two decades, French street artist Invader-born Franck Slama-has turned city streets into digital landscapes, reimagining the urban environment as a living arcade. His iconic 8-bit mosaics have quietly infiltrated skylines and alleyways in over 79 cities across 20 countries, transforming the familiar into something playful, subversive, and undeniably his. Now, in an unexpected yet fitting next move, Invader is bringing his unmistakable pixel art to the heart of Music City with his first-ever Nashville "invasion."