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The tallest piece of art in Britain reached its full height this afternoon with the topping out of the ArcelorMittal Orbit on the Olympic Park.

The 114.5m tall sculpture, designed by artists Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, towers over the neighbouring Olympic Stadium and is destined to become a popular tourist attraction in its own right.

A statue by British sculptor Henry Moore made its long-awaited return to Greenwich Park this morning.

Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, made by Moore in 1976, has been restored to the plinth on which it stood between 1979 and 2007, where it will be on display for the next two years.

A sculpture by British artist Henry Moore is being returned to Greenwich Park more than four years after it was removed.

Moore's 1976 work Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge will be sited on its original plinth next week on a two year loan from the Henry Moore Foundation. It had stood on the spot from 1979 until 2007.

An up and coming sculptor has had his work installed in Canary Wharf.

Suresh Dutt's Drawing Cube (Blue) won the First@108 Public Art Award and the temporary exhibition along with a £10,000 grant, was his prize.

Like the kid at the back of the classroom concealing his true genius under the guise of the joker, Tate Modern's latest big exhibitor is an artist whose humour goes deeper. Marching to the beat of a different drummer, Orozco displays a mind you want to crawl inside.

Heralded as one of the most influential artists of his generation, the Mexican sculptor, photographer and installationist has managed to exist largely unnoticed in the UK.

A sculptor has given a whole new meaning to the phrase sea legs.

The farrier-turned-artist has created a boat that walks and last Thursday the vessel was intended to be strolling along the shores of the South Bank.

Regular structure and geometric shapes piled up and aligned sit pretty comfortably in the lobby of Canary Wharf's iconic tower.

The wooden, MDF and foam rubber rectangle sculptures arrived at One Canada Square this week and look as if they were made for the space.

A sculpture by Henry Moore owned by Tower Hamlets Council is set to be moved to Canary Wharf.

"Draped Seated Woman", produced by the sculptor in 1957, is worth millions of pounds but has been on loan to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1997.

It is easy to go through the working week seeing little more than the Tube, the office and the inside of the occasional sandwich shop. But with your head down, dodging the crowds, there is a whole world of art in Canary Wharf you might be missing out on.

The estate's aesthetically enhanced business landscape boasts a huge permanent collection but there are also a host of new exhibitions taking place this month.

Take a look at the facade of One Canada Square next month and do not be afraid to say what you see. A 14-metre artwork baring a striking resemblance to a Rorschach ink blot test, is on its way and it's likely to distract from the Wharf's most recognisable tower.

It is a one-off piece based on an organic ceramic work by the sculptor Peter Randall Page and forms part of a larger exhibition of his work scheduled to arrive on the estate in April.

Michael Stipe, Bill Nighy and Glenda Jackson are among the famous faces to be found in the lobby of One Canada Square from this week. Immortalised in clay they are part of a collection of figurative pieces by artist Glenys Barton.

The sculptor originally trained as a dancer at the Laban Dance Centre, now based in Deptford. And it was there her fascination with people's bodies first developed.

A lifetime in sculpture has taken up a spring residence to offer some aesthetic relief on the Wharf from the daily grind.

Four decades of powerful sculpture by revered artist Phillip King are exhibited in the lobby of One Canada Square and Jubilee Place Park.

Harry Low meets the latest artist to make One Canada Square her own

BRINGING a little of the natural world into the sleek marble lobby of One Canada Square may seem like a challenge.

But one Sussex-based artist is set to do just that when a collection of her work goes on display later this month.

Alison Crowther is best known for creating imaginative seating and benches from English oak. But between September 15 and November 22, a selection of her striking wooden sculptures will be on show at Canary Wharf’s iconic tower.