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Art & design

  • Es Devlin seated on the floor working on several portraits at once

    ‘We need safe routes’: artist Es Devlin to open refugee portrait show

  • ‘If in doubt, put a swan on it’ … Hume at his studio.

    Artist Gary Hume: ‘I use sex less now – but I still find the world an erotic place’

    He once said all his paintings were inspired by sex. What’s changed? As the former YBA’s new show opens, Hume talks about his many obsessions – from swans to mirrors to doors – and explains how he uses dreams to solve painting problems
  • Rebecca Horn, seen in a mirror in one of her own installation pieces in 2005.

    German installation artist Rebecca Horn dies aged 80

    Born in 1944, Horn’s surreal and witty work used birds, mechanics and masks to create ‘art machines’ and visual representations of sound
  • Detail from portrait of Gabrielle Enthoven by Ethel Wright, circa 1911.

    V&A celebrates a century of national theatre archive with tribute to avid collector

  • A performer climbing a wooden structure, with cable cars in the distance

    Parkour, pyrotechnics and pram-dancing: Greenwich + Docklands international festival 2024 – in pictures

  • Artist Lap-See Lam photographed in front of an ornate golden-looking artwork with dragon and snake images.

    Artist Lap-See Lam: ‘My work is a way to connect generations’

  • ‘Miraculous works’ … a detail from a Gee’s Bend quilt, created by a woman, declared art by a man.

    Author Tracy Chevalier: forget the tired old art v craft debate – this is the age of konsthantverk!

Reviews

  • Patagonia 2024 by Donna Huddleston

    Art
    Donna Huddleston: Company; Liorah Tchiprout: I love the flames, but not the embers – review

  • Sprawling, stomping and all conquering … Max Ernst’s Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism).

    Art and design
    Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100

  • A silver cylindrical casket with a pair of grey gloves beneath it sitting on top of a red box.

    Art
    The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain review – compelling proof that objects do talk…

  • 7. Community, childcare, housing Franki Raffles

    Art
    Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works; Hannah Perry: Manual Labour – review

Photography

  • Two women in chef whites at their pie and mash shop

    Sights of London’s bus route 66 – in pictures

  • Untitled, 1996, by Hara Mikiko shows the back of a woman in a doorway, holding a handbag, in an embrace with a figure whose arm is the only thing visible.

    The big picture: Hara Mikiko captures a Tokyo tryst

    ​The ​Japanese actor turned ​photographer ​seeks an element of chance in her ethereal scenes from everyday life
  • Alexander McQueen presentation for Spring Summer 1998

    Catwalking: 40 years of London fashion week – in pictures

    We take a look back at London fashion week though the lens of legendary photographer Chris Moore

Architecture

  • The Summerland fire on the Isle of Man, 2 August 1973

    Grenfell brought back memories of Summerland fire

  • Step up … Teatro Mediterraneo, Naples, by architects Nino Barillà, Vincenzo Gentile, Filippo Mellia and Giuseppe Sambito. Interior architecture by Luigi Piccinato.

    Stairways to modernist heaven – in pictures

  • Kayakers and birds on a peaceful stretch of river in front of the city

    Flood the golf courses, demolish the freeways: what could Melbourne look like in 2070?

  • Simon Verity at work in 1996 on the facade of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York.

    Simon Verity obituary

Visual arts

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

    After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Five of the best novels about art

    Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
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