Modern public art often falls outside schemes for official protection and, apart from the initiatives of the PMSA, remains an ill-defined field.

This conference, convened by Ian Leith one of the founders of the PMSA, seeks to address the extraordinary burgeoning and loss of public art since 1951 – bringing together different interest groups working in the field to pool information and help conserve this work.

For full details see www.henry-moore.ac.uk.
To book email: ellen@henry-moore.ac.uk or call 0113 246 7467

STATUEPHILIA

Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Ron Mueck, Noble and Webster, Marc Quinn – five contemporary sculptors showing amongst the British Museum’s permanent collection.

In the British Museum’s first exhibition of contemporary art since 1994, five of Britain’s leading artists have been invited to contribute one sculpture each for display in the Museum’s world-famous galleries around the Great Court

Admission free. Related events include British Sculptors’ Drawings: Moore to Gormley. For further details visit www.britishmuseum.org.

Case for an Angel II, plaster, fibreglass, lead, steel, air, Konsthall Malmo, Sweden by Antony Gormley, 1989.
Photo: Jan Uvelius, © Courtesy of the artist and Jay Jopling / White Cube, London.

Cornucopia, household gloss paint on plastic by Damien Hurst, 2008, Collection of the artist.
Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates, © Damien Hirst