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Lauren Halsey to create outdoor sculpture park in South Central, Los Angeles

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In addition to the temporary sculpture park, Halsey will open a community centre in 2026 through her non-profit Summaeverythang

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Netflix’s co-founder will redevelop Utah resort into a ‘skiable outdoor art museum’

The Art Newspaper

Large-scale installations by James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, Paul McCarthy and others will be fully unveiled in 2026

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. But Hauser & Wirth is not alone in realising that a commercial gallery can take on a whole new character, audience and purpose in a rural location.

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Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington—podcast

The Art Newspaper

Plus, AI art beyond this weeks open letter and a chat about Catletts terracotta sculpture Tired What might the fallout be after Creative Australias unpopular decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabis project?

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‘Our biggest heritage crisis’: why Britain’s churches are in danger

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They house treasures ranging from sculpture and ornate carvings to stained-glass windows and historic burial grounds. It also extended the programme for one year only, casting doubt on its future after March 2026. Nearly half of England’s Grade I-listed buildings are churches. If a building is not maintained, damp and rot can spread.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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Edwards’s retrospective opened last year at the Fridericianum in Kassel and will travel to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2026. Conscious pairing Mekondjo’s work “was very consciously paired” with Edwards’s sculptural explorations of African American identity, Fokianaki says. “Of Of course, all these things interconnect.”

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London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture

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Within this setting, Shonibare’s Wind Sculpture will be a “space for reflection and shared experience”, says a project statement. The project also incorporates new figurative sculptures of the late Queen alongside her husband Prince Philip at Birdcage Walk, a Prince Philip gate and a main monument to Elizabeth II to be built beside the Mall.

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