Category "Art and design" - List of latest news (3 274 results)

16:22 A dwarf crocodile carried home by a hunter: Thomas Nicolon’s best photograph

‘As a species, these crocs are easy to find and easy to catch. Brice Itoua is the most skilled hunter in his village. But they kill the crocs to eat – not to sell’

15:50 An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

Holy balls of wool! From pointless paintings to emotionless snapshots, the once-controversial award tiptoes too earnestly across the minefield of today’s culture wars

14:51 Raphael’s School of Athens review – rewarding study of Renaissance fresco

During the latest in Howard Burton’s Masterpiece series, the art historian turns his low-tech but scholarly attention to Raphael’s interior decoration in the Vatican palace

14:49 ‘I like pushing boundaries’: Yinka Shonibare on his landmark art show in Madagascar

The British-Nigerian artist explores colonialism and connection in his first major solo exhibition in Africa. Plus, a grime MC goes oyster farming

14:49 Spat at, skint and splattered with sludge: the fearless artistic life of Gustaf Broms

In 1993, the Swedish artist had reached a dead end – so he burned all his work. Seeing the ashes inspired him to embark on an epic journey through the Indian wilderness, a Swedish cave – and now Britain

12:42 Videotape sculptures and wartime paintings among Turner prize shortlist

Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić and Zadie Xa have been nominated for £25,000 prize

11:22 ‘Filling in these gaps’: Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs

A new exhibition at the Los Angeles Gagosian showcases previously unseen pictures taken by the musician during the rise of Beatlemania

08:11 ‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival

The theme of this year’s celebrated photo bonanza is ‘humanity’ – and Kyoto is bursting with images

06:32 ‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation

22/04 Royal exhibition to recount 40 years of Charles on tour in 70 artworks

Visitors to Buckingham Palace will be able to see works by official tour artists who accompanied visits to 96 countries

21/04 ‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town

It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesmerising?

21/04 Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking read

21/04 From a garda at prayer to Ireland’s first McDonald’s drive-through: Martin Parr’s revealing photographs of Irish life

Dublin Street Photography Festival 2025: The Magnum photographer has spent his career documenting everyday Ireland and Britain

21/04 ‘My work is a scream for help’: Gaza’s artists document life under fire

Work illustrating the war’s brutality but also the resilience of four Palestinian artists, is being exhibited at the Darat al Funan in Jordan

20/04 The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show of jewels, maharajas and movie stars rises above the gossip

20/04 How the humble teapot morphed from kitchen staple to designer icon

Sales of tea sets soar and artists are captivated by the symbolic and creative potential of the simple teatime essential

20/04 The big picture: Wolfgang Tillmans’s tender image of two boys off the coast of Denmark

The German photographer captures a moment of tranquility one Scandinavian summer

19/04 Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint | Rowan Moore

The Catholic church has taken the first steps to canonise the architect of Barcelona’s extraordinary Sagrada Família

19/04 ‘This trick is incredibly risky for him’: Ankit Ghosh’s best phone picture

The Indian photographer captures his neighbour breathing fire at the finale of a major Hindu festival

19/04 Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since

19/04 Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art

Chicken chain has been buying up art since 2004, which it displays on walls of its restaurants

19/04 From Sinners to Étoile: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Michael B Jordan faces down evil in a prohibition-era southern horror, and Charlotte Gainsbourg pliés into a fun new ballet comedy-drama

18/04 William Morris’s legacy of radical creativity | Letters

Letters: The renowned designer’s lasting creative influences are celebrated by Portia Dadley, while John P Butler shares a touching memory of his late wife’s love of a Morris pattern

18/04 Richard Wright review – a hectic, hallucinatory journey into a mind-boggling world

The artist’s largest solo show since winning the Turner prize is a mind-bending and mesmerising visual adventure that often defies comprehension

18/04 ‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors

Ever since the artist’s repellent crimes were brought to light, the world has grappled with how to treat his work. Now a new exhibition at Ditchling, where he lived, is giving survivors a say

18/04 Gormley’s early mettle, AI paint pals and sky-high snogs – the week in art

The sculptor’s macabre early works get an airing, robots remix David Salle’s postmodern paintings and Rodin’s The Kiss heads under the hammer – all in your weekly dispatch

18/04 ‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books

New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids books

18/04 From butterflies to wind turbines, project preserves world’s sonic heritage

Audio project collects soundscapes from nature reserves and sites such as Machu Picchu and Taj Mahal

17/04 Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction

Forty of the late pop artist’s distinctive works will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York next month

17/04 Golden Fleece Award 2025: ‘I was skint last year, and it affected my head so badly. Winning this means a huge amount’

Sasha Sykes and Sarah Browne have won €10,000 each. What do prizes like this one do for artists’ creativity?

16/04 ‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals

16/04 My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So it made sense for them to leave this life together’

15/04 ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume … American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?

14/04 Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood

Pope Francis recognises the ‘heroic virtues’ of the creator of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família basilica in first step of process

14/04 ‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’

As the US president hangs a fist-pumping portrait of himself in the White House and seeks to purge museums of ‘improper ideology’, our writer finds chilling parallels at a new show about the Nazis ridiculing of modern art

14/04 ‘Gunshots were my obsession’: the nicked golden toilet’s creator on his new pump-action art

Maurizio Cattelan, the great Italian conceptual prankster who framed a banana and plumbed in a precious loo, explains why he’s now blasting huge holes into sheets of gold

13/04 ‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home

The internationally renowned South Korean’s diaphanous houses, coming to Tate Modern, embody the emotional imprint of where he has lived

13/04 ‘That serene Scandinavian facade, yet there’s terror underneath’: artist unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 22 July attacks

A 12-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island, where Anders Breivik murdered 69 people in 2011

13/04 Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots; José María Velasco: A View of Mexico – review

The arte povera veteran’s passionate celebration of trees risks being eclipsed by the real ones that surround it. And a 19th-century Mexican polymath becomes the first Latin American artist to have a solo show at the National Gallery

13/04 The big picture: Sally Mann captures girls on the cusp of womanhood

For her classic series At Twelve, the American photographer created a collective portrait of adolescent girls, including world-weary Olivia pictured in her yard

13/04 ‘Very desirable’ rare cast of Rodin’s The Kiss is up for auction

After years in a private sitting room, an early version of the masterpiece is expected to fetch €500,000

12/04 On my radar: Kit de Waal’s cultural highlights

The award-winning author on the folk musician who inspired her second novel, a Parisian celebration of black artists in France, and the wonder of Whitby Abbey

12/04 ‘The plane I was supposed to be on passed above me’: Nima Bank’s best phone picture

Losing track of time at the airport made the Iranian-born photographer reflect on how we deal with setbacks

12/04 ‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world

From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just for fun …

12/04 From The Return to The Last of Us: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for an ancient Greek yarn, while the dystopian video game adaptation powers up for a second series

12/04 ‘When I came out of prison, I couldn’t wait to create’: leading artists and inmates team up to break the prison cycle

Blak In-Justice, staged by the Torch and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, features works by Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee and Destiny Deacon

12/04 ‘Space junk’: huge astronaut statue coming to Perth park is one giant leap too far for many

Council criticised over plan to replace beloved public artwork with 7-metre tall effigy of spaceman created by a former Wall Street trader

11/04 The Guardian view on William Morris: how the Strawberry Thief took over the world | Editorial

Editorial: The visionary designer never achieved his dream of art for all in his lifetime. Now his prints are everywhere. He would be thrilled and appalled

11/04 Cosmic visions, Edwardian bling and Middle Eastern monuments – the week in art

Ravishing photos of space, glittering images of a golden age and Ali Cherri’s archaeological sculpture

11/04 ‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs go on show

Esteemed film-maker Varda began work as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris, where a new exhibition presents her as a vital part of the city’s creative history

10/04 ‘I did it for the experience’: Amoako Boafo, the artist who painted Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship

The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis player

10/04 ‘Freak pictures’: Ireland’s art revolutionaries who were treated so badly one fled to a nunnery

They were artistic trailblazers, bringing modernism to the then deeply conservative country. But Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett faced huge hostility. Now a thrilling new show is celebrating their brilliance – and determination

10/04 Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s

The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a whole

10/04 ‘Finally we are being seen as contenders’: delight in India as demand for south Asian art booms

As wealth in India has grown, so has the number of arts patrons championing both India’s 20th century modern masters and the next generation

09/04 BBC reinstalls sculpture by paedophile Eric Gill with new protective screen

Broadcaster says it does not condone ‘abusive behaviour’ of its creator after repairs to statue of Ariel and Prospero

09/04 ‘It’s torture!’ Turner-winning artist Richard Wright on obliterating his painstaking works

He hand-painted 47,000 stars on the Rijksmuseum’s ceiling and drew 1,000 perfect circles, one a day. Ahead of his major London show, he explains why he often paints over his work afterwards

09/04 A lifesaving midwife in Afghanistan: Noriko Hayashi’s best photograph

‘This woman was nine months pregnant but had never had a checkup. Anisa is listening to the baby’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. After foreign aid cuts, including Trump’s, she is now out of a job’

09/04 Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived

Exhibition of rarely seen paintings by Cassandra Austen is part of events marking 250th anniversary of author’s birth

09/04 ‘It’s unjust’: charity fights to save UK’s at-risk modern buildings

Millennium-era buildings – including Sheffield’s ‘kettle building’ – among a number of landmarks facing demolition

09/04 The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain

In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship – and it’s also incredibly beautiful

08/04 ‘Bark is the original dampproof membrane!’ Meet the radical designers who let nothing go to waste

As their experimental structures made out of cactus plaster, tree resin and chopped straw appear in the real world, eco research studio Material Cultures explains why nature has all the best building materials

08/04 ‘The king of jewellers’: V&A charts the rise of Cartier in new exhibition

Exhibition will explore relationship between British royal family and French jeweller, with more than 350 pieces on display

08/04 David Hockney 25 review – so moving I had tears in my eyes

As reliable as spring daffodils, Hockney reminds us how beautiful the world is with this captivating life-review in paintings and iPad drawings

08/04 London mural by key postwar artist saved from demolition

William Mitchell artwork saved but Blackheath community centre in which it was housed will be torn down

08/04 LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m

Rare early work Going to the Mill is to be auctioned after remaining in the Wallace family since 1926

08/04 UK Aids Memorial Quilt to go on display at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall

Quilt, made in 1980s to raise awareness, to be shown as US cuts raise fears of Aids resurgence in some countries

07/04 Curtains, wellies, nuclear subs and a tsar’s palace: how William Morris mania swept the world

His unmistakable floral patterns – awash with willow, blackthorn and pimpernel – are now on everything from walking sticks to the seats submariners sit on. We go behind the scenes of a dazzling new show

07/04 National Gallery sleepover prize draw offers chance to dream among paintings

London gallery’s competition marks 200th anniversary and opening of Sainsbury Wing after two-year overhaul

06/04 Forgotten fashions: rediscovered slides show off everyday flair from the Fifties and beyond

The latest book from artist Lee Shulman, who has created the world’s largest private collection of amateur colour transparencies, has an often startling sartorial focus

06/04 Artist of ‘truly the worst’ Trump portrait says her career is threatened

British-born painter Sarah A Boardman disputes US president’s claim that she ‘purposefully distorted’ his image

06/04 ‘Something to be proud of’: how an Irish town got a sewage makeover – and stopped discharging its waste into the sea

Arklow’s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph – and amazingly unsmelly too

06/04 Ed Atkins review – a portrait of the artist in turmoil

From digital avatars in limbo or distress to a poignant reliving of his father’s last days, the artist seeks to ‘reimagine life’s chaos’

06/04 The big picture: Clark Winter on the road in Beijing

The American photographer​ captured life​ behind the wheel ​across the US and elsewhere over three decades, using a vehicle’s angles to frame the world outside

05/04 The 50 best museum cafes in the UK

The pioneering V&A tea rooms were designed to draw people into culture, and today these spaces offer more than just sandwiches. Felicity Cloake introduces some of our favourites

05/04 ‘The cabbage seemed isolated and alien’: Ieva Gaile’s best phone picture

A lone vegetable stranded in a world of plastic transformed a trip to the supermarket into a photo opportunity

05/04 From A Minecraft Movie to Black Mirror: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Jason Momoa and Jack Black get building in the video game spinoff, while Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology goes onboard the USS Callister again

04/04 ‘A mutual love affair’: David Hockney 25 retrospective makes a splash in Paris

Exhibition of 456 works by the Bradford-born Francophile underscores Paris’s efforts to reclaim its status as Europe’s art capital

04/04 Adventures in AI, inner children unleashed and provocations from a master prankster – the week in art

Mat Collishaw’s cutting-edge experiments, a delirious meeting of two legends and more mischief from Maurizio Cattelan – all in your weekly dispatch

04/04 ‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?

Its lab buildings have a rusticated air while its sleek, paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floaters

03/04 Tate Modern given Joan Mitchell work in biggest donation since 1969

Miami billionaire couple part with triptych by late abstract expressionist that previously hung in their bedroom

03/04 Giuseppe Penone review – an ecstatic realm where trees and humans merge

From the moment we inhale the scent of this remarkable show – in which trees blast open and boulders perch on branches – the Italian artist intoxicates us like a shaman communing with wood sprites

03/04 Plasticine men and giant goddess women: why Ken Kiff’s brilliant, bizarre art is getting a second look

A new exhibition celebrates the British painter, who was overlooked in the brash 90s, but now whose idiosyncratic work as artist in residence at the National Gallery is being newly celebrated

02/04 Monaka wears her cyclops mask to work: Niccolò Rastrelli’s best photograph

‘Japan is the mecca of cosplay. Monaka runs a cafe in Tokyo called Monster Party, where people go dressed as characters from a subculture known as tanganmen. Her brother is holding a picture of their mum’

02/04 Ed Atkins review – a harrowing medley of spiders, sinkholes and death

Using CGI-avatars, racks of opera costumes and a film starring Toby Jones, the artist explores the proximity of his own mortality – and ours

02/04 Basquiat to Delaney: inside the exhibition honouring 50 years of art in Black Paris

The vast show at the Pompidou highlights how the French capital became a haven for creatives from across the diaspora

02/04 Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence

The artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiography

02/04 Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’

One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselves

01/04 Strictly come endurance dancing! Marathon hoofers bring back the age of week-long epics

It was a time of high-octane thrills as cavorting couples put themselves through brutal competitions in the hope of winning the equivalent of a year’s salary. Now sculptor Nicole Wermers has brought the dancefloor craze back to life

01/04 A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic

A chubby, rhubarb and custard-coloured tower bedecked with anteaters and moles make a fun neighbour to the city’s dreaming spires. It’s left some locals lost for words

01/04 ‘You have the experience of a sick person but it’s not yours’: Leeds art installation explores being a carer

Work by Sarah Roberts addresses the impact of being a young carer on childhood and the strange feeling of being ‘sick-adjacent’

01/04 From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative, unsellable art

As his most ambitious project comes together, the artist plans to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most daring public artwork yet

31/03 March design news: Maurzio Cattelan goes Greek, art teapots and house paint that changes colour

Exhibitions at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by Alessi

31/03 ‘Nothing stopped her’: the 136 reasons why Vanessa Bell is breaking free of Bloomsbury

She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only one

31/03 Designers say plans for UK copyright law risk ‘running roughshod’ over sector

Leading figures including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran add voices to criticism of government’s AI opt-out proposal

31/03 Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions

Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce loneliness

31/03 ‘My brain reaches for morbidity’: inside the unsettling world (and 700 Post-it notes) of artist Ed Atkins

He was a digital art pioneer, making himself an avatar in disturbing films. Now Ed Atkins has a new medium: the pandemic Post-it note. Ahead of a major Tate show, we meet the shapeshifting artist

30/03 IDF X account publishes 'Studio Ghibli' style AI artwork amid social media trend

The IDF social media account recognized the widespread trend, captioning their post: "We thought we’d also hop on the Ghibli trend."

30/03 Readers reply: Why are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

30/03 Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go

The city’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profit

30/03 The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

Behind Antonio López Díaz’s image of the inspirational Achta Derib is a story of how small changes can transform lives

30/03 Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style review – lidos, Speedos and atomic bombs

Swimming’s deep and shallow ends are granted equal weight in an engaging show that ranges from Pamela Anderson’s Baywatch cossie to the explosive naming of the bikini

30/03 Art can help remind US and Europe of special relationship, says director of reopening Frick Collection

After a $220m five-year renovation, the New York museum is set to showcase a trove of European masterpieces

30/03 Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse? | Barbara Ellen

Ono was blamed for splitting the Beatles and taking John Lennon from his true calling. Let’s hope things are getting easier for women who date famous musicians

30/03 ‘People have walked through here for centuries’: the rhythms of the Welsh valleys in pictures

The beautiful and hardy herds of the Welsh valleys act as a counterpoint to three decades of change in photographer Ken Grant’s images

30/03 After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024; Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever – review

From loneliness in Norfolk to vibrant Indian culture in Leicester, a touring show captures a riot of contradictions. Elsewhere, Leeds is lent an otherworldly air by a colour photography pioneer

30/03 Hockney says he did not offer to paint King Charles during royal visit

British artist, 87, who was visited by the king in his London home, said he did not know him well enough to paint him

29/03 ‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

Roberto Lugo and other artists of color are now feeling heat from Trump’s attack on diversity and efforts to rewrite truth of the US’s past

29/03 Gold leaf and Gatsby: Brussels lays claim to birth of art deco with year of celebrations

Throughout 2025, the Belgian capital is marking 100 years of the movement with events, exhibitions and film screenings

29/03 ‘Maybe people see Edward Hopper, or a spaceship, or something else’: Martin James Burton’s best phone photo

The British photographer saw an echo of a famous painting when he shot three strangers in a Toronto gallery

29/03 From A Working Man to Lucy Dacus: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Jason Statham is back in black ops territory, but with a hard hat on, while one-third of Boygenius delivers a gorgeous solo album

29/03 Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family

Samuel Hartveld’s great-grandchildren to welcome back stolen 17th-century painting that was sold to Tate Britain

27/03 London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it

27/03 ‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

In a region fractured by jihadists and coups, Ségou’Art shows ‘we share our culture, even if politics divides us’

27/03 ‘CSI: Miró’: X-ray reveals Spanish artist painted out his mother – but why?

Decades of detective work have uncovered Joan Miró’s hidden act of rebellion: painting over his mother’s portrait. But why did the artist do it?

26/03 Trump is offended by a painting of himself. For once, I get where he’s coming from | Dave Schilling

We all know what it’s like to be horrified by our own image. In the president’s case, he looks like a large baby in a suit

26/03 A storm-chaser beneath ferocious rotating clouds: Richard Sharum’s best photograph

‘Our hair stood on end as the air around us became supercharged. There were telegraph poles and hailstones the size of oranges dropping out of the sky’

26/03 Pammy’s Baywatch showstopper, exploding bikinis and Nasa’s banned recordbreaker – Splash! review

This illuminating exhibition about all things swimming charts the birth of the bikini, its rapid shrinkage, lovely lidos – and the costumes that went too far

26/03 Gerard Byrne: The Struggle with the Angel – Global journeys hint at humanity’s precarious condition

The multimedia artist arranges 23 hand-printed photographs that recall Walter Benjamin’s evocative description of the angel of history

25/03 The big picture: Hicham Benohoud frames the classroom as theatre

While working as an art teacher in the 90s, the Moroccan photographer collaborated with his students to play with the confines of the educational system

25/03 The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – how immigrants reshaped postwar Britain

Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s

25/03 ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regime

24/03 Mahtab Hussain review – smoking mums, hidden mosques … and Rishi Sunak

The artist turns the state’s suspicious gaze on Britain’s Muslim community right back in the opposite direction in an overwhelming, galvanising show

23/03 Tate Modern at 25: ‘It utterly changed the face of London’

It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled shark – and despite financial pressures, there can be little doubt about the gallery’s seismic impact

23/03 ‘A place you remember for the rest of your life’: why Dutch architects are giving new life to old schools

The inspiring makeover of a 1960s Utrecht college is among projects in the Netherlands that can teach the UK vital lessons in sustainability

23/03 ‘The DJ’s focus makes time stand still’: Joshua Hasanoff’s best phone picture

Quick work + a quirky concept + a cool neighbour = a winning shot for this young Australian photographer

22/03 From Flow to Harry Hill: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A cat survives a watery apocalypse in an Oscar-winning animated treasure, and the veteran comic takes his surreal oddities on tour

21/03 ‘The ground keeps breaking and deforming’: life in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields

In the Phlegraean Fields in southern Italy a record 6,740 earthquakes were recorded in 2024, and the seismic swarm has continued in 2025

20/03 ‘Every stone tells a story’: Cornish hedge labyrinth opens on Bodmin Moor

Artist behind giant piece of land art made using ancient Cornish hedging technique says work is a message to future generations

19/03 ‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422-mile surf paradise

Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach

19/03 Flame-haired defiance by a Belfast mural: Hannah Starkey’s best photograph

‘She seemed so strong, so forceful, to be going through the streets dressed like this. The hyper-feminised character she projected was like a riposte to the male violence’

19/03 Penis-inscribed tables and parking meter chairs: the lost queer genius of House of Beauty and Culture

Boy George bought their provocative furniture; fashion giant Martin Margiela embraced deconstruction after visiting their loose change-strewn shop. So why is the groundbreaking 80s design collective so little known?

19/03 ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional society

19/03 Of tinkerers and dreamers: striving to be the fastest on the salt on Lake Gairdner

Hundreds of drivers and crew converge on the South Australian dry lake to test their mettle against some of the fastest land vehicles in the world

19/03 ‘The colour of my skin didn’t matter’: exhibition shines light on black artists in postwar Paris

Pompidou Centre show featuring 150 artists of African heritage is the last before the gallery shuts for five years

18/03 Mario Cresci review – mind-bending tricks from an Italian iconoclast

Whether photographing the cave-dwelling inhabitants of the south or a black square he’d painted on a wall, Cresci showed how the camera could manipulate our memories

18/03 Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame

From hanged men and inky cephalopods to shadowy gothic castles, these cosmic, horror-tinged works let the Les Misérables writer and liberal political campaigner speak directly to us

17/03 ‘I think my fetish furniture hampered my career’: Allen Jones on decades of controversy

He wanted to remove sculpture’s safety valve – and blew up the 60s as a result. The great pop-pioneer looks back on an extraordinary career, from getting thrown out of art school to covering Kate Moss in fibreglass

17/03 ‘Like a game of black-belt level Jenga’: inside the ancient art of Japanese carpentry

From the earthquake-defying joints that support a 13th-century temple to the delicacy of sashimono puzzle boxes, a new exhibition shows off the myriad possibilities of this centuries-old craft

17/03 Borderline genius: how José María Velasco’s landscapes redefined perceptions of Mexico

An exhibition of works by the 19th-century artist shows his role in creating a sense of Mexican identity – revealing that he was more polymath than painter

17/03 ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light

He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a hero

17/03 The art expert did it: LGG Ramsey revealed as 1951 thief of Van Dyck painting

Exclusive: How one historian’s investigative work led to artwork finally being returned to ‘English Versailles’

16/03 On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights

The Black Country, New Road and Jockstrap musician on a YouTube philosopher, the power of Munch and her love of saunas and Japanese onsen

16/03 New designers to look out for in 2025 – from 3D printed buildings to fuzzy chairs made from agave

The UK’s top creatives have put together a list of makers who put sustainability first. Using everything from reclaimed rattan and bacteria-dyed fabrics to algorithmic design, these trailblazers are making positive steps forward for people and planet

16/03 ‘Fishing in Cornwall is like a metaphor for life’: photographer Jon Tonks on landscape, community and the perfect catch

Tonks spent 18 months documenting the fisherfolk of the south-west, learning about the community’s relationship with the sea, and how the future could be more sustainable for the fishers

16/03 The big picture: a pioneering Indian skater girl shows off her prized board

Photographer Chantal Pinzi travelled the globe to take shots of female skateboarders who defy cultural norms, including this one of Asha Gond

15/03 ‘It’s happening fast’ – creative workers and professionals share their fears and hopes about the rise of AI

Photographers, translators, academics and GPs are among those whose jobs are either threatened or aided by the tech

15/03 ‘I feel conflicted when I see navy recruits’: Spiro Bolos’s best phone picture

One afternoon, as he passed a train station bench in Chicago, the street photographer spotted young men in uniform …

15/03 From Last Breath to Gangs of London: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Woody Harrelson stars in a tense, claustrophobic true story, and the hyperviolent cockney-em-up returns for a third series of criminal hijinks

14/03 Tate cuts 7% of workforce in effort to reduce funding deficit from pandemic

Arts institution says loss of 40 roles achieved through voluntary departures and recruitment freezes

14/03 Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown

Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features gown inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond

14/03 Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney

The president’s attacks on diversity and immigration have already affected many artists and will affect many more in the coming months

13/03 Larry Stanton: the artist who captured New York’s gay scene at a time of crisis

A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of a painter who died at 37 of Aids as he tried to preserve a record of those around him

13/03 Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

12/03 Battered statue bears witness to Haiti’s tragedy, resilience and flickering hope

The depiction of the Unknown Maroon – the Nèg Mawon – was commissioned by a dictator to represent freedom and now stands in the middle of a war zone

12/03 Where the art of Edvard Munch comes alive: a city break in Oslo

As a new exhibition celebrating the portraits of Edvard Munch opens at London’s National Portrait Gallery, we take a trip to the artist’s home city in Norway

12/03 Deutsche Börse prize review – Black cowboys, bonkers rock-huggers and a story of shocking loss

The photographers up for the £30,000 prize show work that ranges from the spiritual and scintillating to the smug and glib

12/03 A sculpture made of fire: Murray Fredericks’ best photograph

‘We walked three kilometres into this Australian lake, to where the water was still only a metre deep. Then we set up the gas pipe – and waited until the air was really still’

12/03 ‘Painting was my final act of defiance’: how a chef from war-torn Eritrea wowed the art world after his death

Ficre Ghebreyesus, who died in 2012, made vertiginous paintings celebrating family, the diaspora and his own turbulent story. His first European solo exhibition charts this remarkable journey

12/03 Edvard Munch Portraits review – smug, creepy and weird, but where’s the drama?

The Scream artist’s friends, family and physicians populate this patchily assembled collection that suggests little of a boisterous, bohemian life

12/03 ‘Zippos circus is in town!’ Can Man Utd really raise £2bn for a throbbing big top?

Local lad Norman Foster’s plan envisions an enormous canopy over a new stadium and a ‘mixed-use mini-city’. But, given the club’s £1bn debts, the idea seems as flimsy as its own tensile membrane

11/03 William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis

10/03 ‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting dead

10/03 The big idea: should we abolish art?

Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity

10/03 The Wonder Way review – artists grapple with the outdoors in study of beautiful chaos

Emmanuelle Antille’s diffuse film begins with her grandmother’s passion for her garden before exploring a range of artists reimagining landscape

10/03 ‘Just be radical’: the feminist artist giving Matisse a modern punk twist

In her irreverent new exhibition, Sylvie Fleury is pairing the great modernist’s drawings and cutouts with her own feminist, fashion-focused work

09/03 Jack Vettriano put art in the hands of everyday people | Letters

Letters: Ross McQueen says the Scottish painter democratised art and Neil Heydon-Dumbleton like his work, but Tamar Payne says it is misogynistic

09/03 Outside in: the extraordinary home inside a giant greenhouse in Norway

An architect has designed a sustainable home inside a glass box, where fruit and veg grow, and their family can thrive

09/03 Best seat in the house: writer Geoff Dyer on why sitting in a corner is so satisfying

The author always sits in the corner of a room but doesn’t understand why. Do some people crave the solace of the corner more than others? He finds clues to the compulsion in his upbringing – and in art

09/03 Welcome to Upper Lawn, the 60s Wiltshire retreat of brutalism’s first couple

Pioneering architects Alison and Peter Smithson’s no-frills glass box near the ruins of a grand 18th-century folly was an experiment, a second home and a ‘fairy story’ – all of which awaits whoever buys it next…

09/03 Visitors flock to Paris’s Pompidou Centre before it closes for renovations

Art lovers catch last glimpse of prestigious art collection before gallery shuts for five years for major revamp

09/03 Art, Leigh Bowery and the weaponisation of embarrassment

Open up and let the shame in… It will set you free

09/03 Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 review – saints and sinners come alive in art’s golden moment

From young Christ in a strop to Lazarus coming back from the dead, astonishingly relatable paintings by medieval Siena’s finest reach into the present in this dazzling show

09/03 The big picture: Sebastián Bruno brings an outsider’s eye to a wedding in Cardiff

The Argentine photographer ​spent more than a decade living in Wales and capturing community life there, including one bride’s big day

08/03 On my radar: Bobby Baker’s cultural highlights

The artist on a moving biography of George Orwell’s wife, a theatre company that should be available on the NHS, and the joy of a good crime drama

08/03 ‘I was under a huge tree, watching the droplets fall’: Can Manap’s best picture

The photographer on capturing an unexpected image in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar

08/03 From Mickey 17 to Lady Gaga: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Robert Pattinson is beside himself in Bong Joon Ho’s new sci-fi satire, and the subversive pop queen goes back to basics on her new album

07/03 Darkness from Serra, delights from Siena, and a polar bear sound asleep – the week in art

Richard Serra’s final works, phenomenal medieval art, Egypt for kids, Polish movie poster magic and nature photography at its finest

07/03 Sole portrait of England’s ‘nine-day queen’ thought to have been identified by researchers

‘Compelling evidence’ suggests figure is Lady Jane Grey, making it only known depiction made before 1554 execution

06/03 Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner

Hackney council calls time on Ashwin Street studio, neighbour to newly famous live music venue Cafe Oto

06/03 Gordon and Jim after coming out to Gordon’s mum: Sage Sohier’s best photograph

‘They had been together for 21 years. They’re telling Margot, Gordon’s mum, that they’re about to appear in a Valentine’s Day issue of the local newspaper’

05/03 London exhibition explores design based on needs of nature and animals

Curator of Design Museum show says ‘human-centric’ approach to design needs overhaul amid climate crisis

05/03 Women behind the lens: ‘In Cuba, domestic life is forced on to the streets’

Part of a project exploring islanders’ daily challenges, this photograph captures the quiet endurance of Cuban mothers

05/03 Jack Vettriano obituary

Bestselling Scottish painter loved by the public but dismissed by the art establishment and cultural critics

05/03 Siena: The Rise of Painting review – a heart-stopping show about the moment western art came alive

This epochal exhibition is full of works so intimate and expressive that the painters of a medieval Italian city 700 years ago suddenly seem close at hand

04/03 The Guardian view on 1980s counterculture: back to the future | Editorial

Editorial: The taboo-breaking stunts of Leigh Bowery and the Face magazine were ahead of their time

04/03 ‘I aspire to be like water’: the exquisite buildings of Liu Jiakun, winner of architecture’s top prize

He turns steelworks into parks and makes ‘rebirth bricks’ from earthquake rubble. As the novelist, meditator and ‘accidental architect’ wins the Pritzker prize, we look at the masterful temples, caves and public spaces of this one-man antidote to Chinese bombast

03/03 Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’

The Scot painted singing butlers, ‘broads’ in bras and tough guys in suits, in works critics found lurid, chintzy, devoid of irony and often sexist. But they were also hugely popular – showing the power of ‘I get it’ art

02/03 Artist Lubaina Himid: ‘The YBAs were wired into selling art. We had no idea that was how to do it’

The pioneering Turner prize winner on being ignored for years, representing the UK at next year’s Venice Biennale, and the joys of Preston

01/03 Black models, foreign films, queer culture – how the Face shaped me as a young man | Marc Thompson

In the 1980s and 90s this pioneering magazine was a hub for subcultures, but in today’s digital landscape trends are followed rather than set, says queer archivist Marc Thompson

28/02 ‘A homage to St Davids’: artist aims to paint everyone in Britain’s smallest city

City of Portraits, a decade in the making, celebrates tightknit community in Welsh city. But joyful project had sad beginnings

27/02 Royal Academy could cut 60 jobs amid ‘serious financial challenge’

Institution blames ‘increasing costs and changing visitor behaviours’ as numbers have failed to recover since Covid

26/02 ‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den

Seeing Bacon’s stunning depiction of his lover Peter Lacy hanging in a reincarnation of the watering hole where his skeletal friends would drink, stagger and cackle was a fleeting yet unforgettable experience

26/02 Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark may have links to UK

Archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle

26/02 Arts sector’s use of unpaid interns for some roles could be illegal, experts say

Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries

26/02 Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery

Exclusive: Art historian points to ‘bad craftsmanship’ in supposedly 17th-century work entitled Samson and Delilah

25/02 Leigh Bowery! review – the sex, scandal and sprayed enemas of the ultimate exhibitionist

This exhaustive account of the iconic diva and dandy covers all the fashion, drugs, clubs and self-obsession of a life that was short, sleazy and sensational

25/02 Grace Slick on sex, drugs and Jefferson Airplane: ‘I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake’

She topped the charts, dropped the F-bomb on US TV, was ghosted by Jim Morrison and planned to spike Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD. Now 85, the legendary singer tells all

25/02 ‘Artists should let the cat out of the bag’: Lubaina Himid to represent Britain at 2026 Venice Biennale

She was once forced to exhibit in a corridor by the ICA toilet. Now the 70-year-old artist is going to the ‘Olympics of art’ where she has ‘all sorts of things to say about Britain’s history and the British pavilion itself’

25/02 Norman Foster on shortlist to design Queen Elizabeth II memorial

Architect who was once highly critical of King Charles is part of team that is one of five finalists for scheme

24/02 The big picture: the jubilation of clubbing in 90s London

Photographer Ewen Spencer captures the energy of a garage music night for working-class kids

24/02 ‘Lucian Freud was thrilled when Leigh Bowery stripped naked’: how a wild club kid became the great painter’s muse

When outrageous clubbers Sue Tilley and Bowery posed for the eminent artist, some of the most spectacular portraits of the century were born. Tilley talks about sex, cash and Bowery’s untimely death

24/02 David Hayles obituary

Other lives: Expert in decorative plastering who spent much of his spare time on solo cycling trips around the globe

23/02 ‘An ode to Altadena’: LA arts community bands together to support fire-ravaged neighborhood

The eclectic neighborhood was devastated by the wildfire last month; galleries and artists are now working to protect its legacy

23/02 Copper Bottom review – a green marvel in every sense

Adrian James’s copper-clad, energy-generating new home on the outskirts of Oxford is a triumph of style and sustainability

23/02 Allan Weber: My Order; Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes – review

Drawing on his stint as a food delivery driver in Rio during Covid, Allan Weber riffs on life in the favela where he was born, lives and works. In a separate show, Puerto Rico’s Daniel Lind-Ramos speaks to colonialism and the climate crisis

23/02 ‘Photography is therapy for me’: Martin Parr on humour, holidaying and life behind the lens

He has a prolific career and extensive portfolio, with his images of British life especially iconic. At 72, he tells Miranda Sawyer, he’s still thinking about what to shoot next

23/02 iPhone designer still asks: ‘I wonder what Steve Jobs would do?’ – despite being told not to

Jony Ive, the man behind the look of Apple’s iconic brands says the firm’s co-founder specifically asked him not to consider ‘what Steve would do’

22/02 ‘It was so fleeting, yet weirdly they were almost posing’: Richard Chambury’s best phone photo

The London photographer always saw odd things going on while cycling at weekends, but nothing quite like this …

22/02 Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda

22/02 Those Passions: on art and politics by TJ Clark review – show me the Monet

The veteran art critic sets out to unsettle received ideas in this collection of 22 dazzling essays

22/02 From I’m Still Here to Leigh Bowery: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

The harrowing Brazilian story of political disappearance could be on for multiple Oscars, and the larger-than-life art renegade gets a Tate Modern retrospective

22/02 ‘I do feel we can be too prudish’: one woman’s experience as a life model

Ellie Heney, 32, first modelled at a life drawing class as student. Having fallen for the art form she explains why she’ll do it for life

21/02 Resistance review – a captivating century of protest and photography

Turner Contemporary, MargateMarches, strikes and other acts of defiance covering causes from anti-fascism to the Iraq war are captured in compelling detail in an exhibition conceived by Steve McQueen

21/02 Germany at a crossroads: the reprise of the far right – photo essay

Photographer Fabian Ritter has spent years documenting the rise of the far right. Recent events illustrate the growing political tension in the country

21/02 Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts – and how they made it

As artists call for better access to the arts, Sally Wainwright, Steven Knight, Larry Achiampong and others speak out

21/02 Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?

Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries

21/02 Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

21/02 Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas

A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnut

21/02 Historic England acquires collection featuring some of UK’s oldest photos

Janette Rosing built up pioneering trove of 8,000 images dating back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution

20/02 ‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole

A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equality

19/02 Secret workshop where Picassos and Rembrandts were forged found in Rome

Prosecutors seized 71 canvases and say evidence suggests art restorer was behind frauds

19/02 ‘The energy in the delivery room was insane’: Maggie Shannon’s best photograph

‘The mothers and midwives never asked me to leave. Most of the time, they would call me over and say, “You’ve got to photograph this!”’

19/02 The Long Wave: Elmiene’s songs of hope in the shadow of war

The British singer-songwriter explores the loss of home and homeland as we share stories of Sudan. Plus, Drake bounces back after Kendrick diss

19/02 I Am Martin Parr review – brief study of tragicomic Britain’s inspired photographer

Valuable documentary on the vigilant genius whose highly coloured 70s and 80s images revealed the white working class as never before

19/02 The Face Magazine: Culture Shift review – rebellious fashion photography with a raucous sense of fun

The style monthly was loud, left-field and unabashedly British. The 200 images from 50 photographers on show reflect its furious energy and explosive creative couplings

18/02 ‘We can’t go back’: Staffordshire firms fight to keep ceramics tradition alive

Royal Stafford is latest in series of closures as rising costs add to pressures on companies in Potteries

17/02 Life classes: is it time to draw a line under nude modelling?

A row over an art class raises potentially difficult questions about the traditional method of learning to draw

16/02 Loving the British Museum, pots and all | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s experience of the institution’s treasures

16/02 Embrace of Indigenous artists reaches London thanks to influence of Venice Biennale

Curators and artists say this is a time of overdue recognition but others are cautious about the longevity of the moment

16/02 Soane and Modernism: Make it New review – red phone boxes, Sydney Opera House and a prophet of modern architecture

The links between Le Corbusier and co and the inspirational architect of Dulwich Picture Gallery and the old Bank of England are explored in a fascinating exhibition in his own house of treasures

16/02 The week in art: Goya to Impressionism; Linder: Danger Came Smiling – review

Permitted to leave Switzerland for the first time, 25 masterpieces lovingly acquired by collector Oskar Reinhart surprise at every turn

16/02 The big picture: hope within reach in 1970s New York

Mark Cohen’s evocative shot of a child with some bubble gum machines is part of a series capturing the vibrant characters and street life of the Big Apple

15/02 ‘We’re reminded that even beautiful things have their negative side’: Sayan Bose’s best phone picture

Indian photographer Sayan Bose celebrates the cultural heritage of Bengal in this striking image of a young farmer

15/02 From Captain America to The White Lotus: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Anthony Mackie dons the Lycra as Marvel’s shield-chucking superhero, and Mike White’s resort-hopping black comedy returns for a third season

14/02 Mickalene Thomas and Linder review – impossibly exuberant women electrify a body-slam of a show

Thomas employs rhinestones and tiger-print to reflect on the representation of black women, while Linder appears covered in coloured goo at two concurrent shows

14/02 Titanic talents, fabulous florals and a river of black stone – the week in art

Emii Alrai homes in on Vesuvius, Cézanne and Manet go on display and Yayoi Kusama shows us her green fingers

14/02 ‘Important and beautiful’ 13th-century Bible returns to Salisbury

Sarum Master Bible goes on display at town’s cathedral later this month after being in private hands for almost 800 years

14/02 Shot through the heart: when it comes to expressing love, only art can do it justice

Whether it’s heartbreak or joy, an endless embrace or a tragic break up, artists have long been grappling with our deepest emotion

14/02 ‘A space for solace’: Stonehenge show explores attraction of stone circles

Photography exhibition makes case for increasing importance of circles as people seek sense of belonging

13/02 Khaled Sabsabi dropped as Australia’s representative to Venice Biennale

Amid political pressure, Creative Australia says deselecting the Lebanese-born artist will avoid ‘divisive debate’

13/02 ‘She kept pushing the boundaries’: Paule Vézelay, the British abstract pioneer who found fame in interwar Paris

A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of the maverick British artist beloved by Miro, Hemingway and Mondrian, who had to flee to Paris to realise her true artistic vision

12/02 Goya to Impressionism review – three salmon steaks blow the soppy jugs and flowers away

Is there an ulterior motive to this drearily grand exhibition of paintings borrowed from a Swiss collection? Could it be to show how vastly superior the Courtauld’s own works are?

12/02 The whole Icelandic nation in one face: Ragnar Axelsson’s best photograph

‘Guðjón was kind of angry that day. He was looking for a mink that had been killing his eider ducks. This image opened doors for him, leading to advert and movie work’

12/02 American Photography: unforgettable images of the beauty and brutality of a nation

Astounding shots of a wounded civil war major and a flogged Black man sit amid amateur snaps and propaganda in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum – showcasing the nation’s unrivalled mastery of the camera

12/02 Henri Michaux review – the delirious artist who took mescaline so you don’t have to

He lived an avant-garde life in Paris, recording his intense drug-induced visions on paper. Our critic sees a spine, a hand, an owl, a sea monster – or does he?

11/02 Dismissed, excluded and now adored: why are women surrealists suddenly everywhere?

Written off as ‘muses’ and denied entry to the movement, they still produced extraordinary work that is only now being appreciated. We enter a gender-breaking world of occult worship – and cats

11/02 Mervyn Street’s parents were paid in rocks instead of wages. He led a fight for his people – and won $180m

The Gooniyandi artist’s new show, Stolen Wages, chronicles the lives of Aboriginal mustering workers, like himself and his father – who was never paid in his lifetime

11/02 Beyond Nostalgia and Dreams: capturing immigrant identities in personal objects

In his new photography exhibit, Yusuf Ahmed’s experience of moving from Ethiopia to Kenya to the US inspires a poignant series of images

11/02 Anselm Kiefer: Early Works review – his Nazi salute dominates a show haunted by horrors

From shocking images of him Sieg Heil-ing to a woodland watercolour haunted by the atrocities of war, the German artist confronts his homeland’s fascist past – and it’s never felt so relevant

10/02 ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled

Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence