art & design
-
He made a documentary about architecture in Nazi Germany and followed the Stalinist heritage trail. Now the film-maker is tackling Il Duce – one fascist monument at a time
-
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
-
From a crazy golf course in LA’s Skid Row funded by Mike Kelley’s estate, to New Yorkers asking Who Stole the House?, artists are addressing the cost of property
-
Why is Tate Modern exhibiting an old-fashioned, second-rate artist whose art recalls the kind of British painters it would never let through its doors?
-
Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency
-
Venice biennale pavilions 2016 A souped-up pre-school playground
Oliver WainwrightUruguay opens a swap shop, Australia makes a splash with its pool while Germany and Austria’s pavilions tackle the refugee crisis with varying success – the architectural equivalent of a UN summit is as kooky and curious as ever
news
in pictures
-
For his book Badly Repaired Cars, Ronni Campana photographed hopelessly patched up vehicles in east London – and discovered a weird poignancy between the strips of duct tape
-
talking points
-
Photographer Matt Black discovered that it was possible to drive from California to the east coast without once losing sight of America’s poor
-
The luscious banquets painted by the Renaissance master were held up as a good example of healthy eating this week by the National Obesity Forum – but were they really that nutritious?
-
reviews
-
Gagosian, London
De Maria’s art is electrifying outside, but inside this show, his untouchable steel sculptures and uninspiring statements fail to tingle the spine -
The grotesqueness of haute couture and high society come alive in the self-portraits of one the most influential photo artists of the late 20th century
-
This yearning, enigmatic show brings together a series of fragmentary images from 1991 – the year González-Torres’s lover died of an Aids-related illness
-
‘The protesters would go over to him and chat – as if he was just painting a river’
-
Master photographer who specialised in precisely staged advertising images and celebrity portraits
-
The New York artist has made a career out of her self-portraits that act as highly exaggerated and oft times grotesque character studies
-
Libby Hall spent three decades trawling auctions and car-boot sales for vintage postcards and photos of people and their pets, some dating back to the 1850s
-
A new exhibition at Magnum in London showcases the work of six photographers new to the agency
-
The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, the violent demonstrations in France, Chile and Nairobi, the volcanic eruptions in Indonesia – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
-
Letters: The forging of cultural connections and the search for common understanding cannot be brushed aside as the romantic drivel of the so-called ‘luvvies’
-
Cultural heritage expert claims off-duty regime soldiers have been carrying out illegal excavations at Unesco site
-
With development of London’s best-known riverside ruin finally under way, Peter Watts remembers what could have been – from a Noddyland theme park to a rubbish incinerator or Chelsea’s football ground
-
Different generations are sharing homes again. It sounds awful to me, but it’s spawning plenty of good ideas
the big picture
-
Photographer Libby Hall documented her local pub in Leiston, Suffolk, as the village tipped into the modern world with the arrival of the Sizewell power station next door
you may have missed
-
Dive into underwater cities, swoon over O’Keeffe’s ravishing blooms, and swoosh down Carsten-Höller’s slides and hang out with Hockney and his friends in LA
-
In an exclusive preview of his new show, Turner winner Martin Creed gives us a guided tour round old cars, smashed chairs and plastic bags from under his fridge
-
They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models
-
Lassnig’s paintings of herself as a robot, a monster and an elderly naked gunslinger have seen her hailed as the perfect artist for the age of the selfie. But her ‘body awareness’ work is about more than just surface
video
-
-
Destroyed by Isis in October 2015, a 2000-year-old arch from Palmyra, Syria, has been meticulously recreated through 3D printing for Trafalgar Square
-
The artist says the situation is a ‘big violation of human rights’
popular
Dalí in a diving helmet How the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain