Mayor Boris Johnson unveils large blue Hahn/Cock

Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States

When does an artistic trope stop being art? The incessant repetition of Yinka Shonibare’s trademark batik print is starting to wear thin

National Gallery Outdoor Exhibition

An al fresco pop-up, showing 20 life-size reproductions of ‘the nation’s favourite paintings’, alongside free art activities, is bringing some of the National Gallery’s most famous pictures to a wider audience

Heather Phillipson – interview: ‘I wanted to respond to the loaded political position of Trafalgar Square’

With her sculpture THE END finally installed in Trafalgar Square, after a delay due to Covid-19, and the first full monograph of her work now out, Phillipson talks about the pandemic, subversion, her multimedia practice and endings and beginnings

Mark Wallinger: ‘Even the ugliest mark, with symmetry, gains some kind of élan’

After months of psychoanalysis, the Turner Prize-winning artist reveals something of his inner self in his debut solo show at Hauser & Wirth. The id, the ego and the superego are all vying for attention and begging interpretation

Art and politics/art or politics: the political quandary of Manifesta 10

Manifesta 10: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia 28 June – 31 October 2014