art & design
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'If she was white, would there be this resistance?'A memorial to the Jamaican nurse seen as a heroine of the Crimean war has caused a furore. Martin Jennings hits back at critics -
The Brexit war cry has been bellowed from a flimsy stage set of Britishness. Leaving the EU won’t miraculously transport us back to 1950s domesticityEU bureaucrats want your tea and toast. Better arm yourself with a Dyson
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Dazzling, daring – and still in dangerExclusive: In an audacious coup involving a Manhattan auction house, an anonymous agent and a secret bid, Derby has brought home a pair of masterworks by its star artist, even as his wider collection faces the cut -
How we made Tate Modern‘People said if we were going to save a power station, it should be Battersea. But I thought it was too big’
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Rankin webchat – your questions answered on Instagram, Madonna and big moneyThe Dazed and Confused founder joined us to answer your questions – and weighed in on everything from photographing Madonna to banning selfie sticks at museums. Catch up with his answers here
in pictures
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Trouble in paradise: the lost motels of New Jersey – in picturesWildwood, a coastal resort in New Jersey, saw a spate of modernist masterpieces built in the 1950s – only for them to be destroyed decades later. Photographer Mark Havens documented the town before it was too late
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talking points
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The Tate's switcheroo, Jarman shortlist and queer Islam – the week in artThe superwomen of the USSR flex their muscles, David Hockney returns to portraiture, and how William Hogarth predicted Brexit – all in your weekly art dispatch
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Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq's headThe art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water
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reviews
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Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van DyckFrom the sensous Cézanne owned by Degas to van Dyck’s horde of Titians, this sparky show reveals the chains of inspiration linking painters through the ages
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Brain-fizzing art to power a pyramidSupersized sculpture, live performance and piles of goo get the airing they deserve in an expansion full of surprise – the 360-degree lookout is art itself
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A dose of reality with exhibits on snooping and migrationSamson Young and Chiharu Shiota among artists whose works bring global political turmoil to art market’s top event
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The 20 photographs of the weekMuhammad Ali’s memorial service, Banksy’s new mural in Bristol, Euro 2016 in France, the continuing fight against Isis – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Head out on the highway: celebrating the great American road tripThe desire to discover the US by car is embedded in the American psyche – as a book, now turned into an exhibition, of photographs makes clear
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Mary Nolan obituaryOther lives: Painter, ceramicist and photographer who with her husband founded the Sidney Nolan Trust arts centre
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Janette Beckman’s snapshots of musical subculturesFrom mods to hip-hop, the photographer documented Britain’s musical subcultures of the 70s and 80s
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'The police shouted at us to come down. We refused’: the Queen’s coronation, 1953John Powell and two friends watch the procession from the top of a pillar
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Corsets and chickens: the East End in the 1960s – in picturesFrom the 1960s onward, John Claridge has turned the soot and poverty of London’s East End into something luminously beautiful
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How we live now: inside the revolution in urban livingAs the world urbanises, we present five portraits of people who are pioneering new ways of living in cities – from the men who sleep in Tokyo’s net cafes to the Londoners embracing ‘co-housing’
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Tate Modern’s Switch House review – richness and grandeurThe art gallery’s new extension is a multilayered mountain that profits from its power station past
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Tate Modern’s Switch House: art comes firstTate Modern’s new extension houses a beautifully cogent chronicle of art movements from the past 60 years
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the big picture
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Walking on water: The Floating PiersChristo and Jeanne-Claude’s installation of 100,000 square metres of shimmering yellow fabric floating on Lake Iseo in northern Italy
you may have missed
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How Berlin's Biennale became a slick, sarcastic jokeIn the hands of New York fashion collective DIS, one of Europe’s biggest exhibitions is now a feeble blancmange of ads and avatars – where is the art?
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The futuristic city that never wasAmid the postwar rubble, designers dreamed of a gleaming powerhouse of moving platforms, monorails and highways in the sky. But austerity took their vision away – handing the future to ‘gangster development’
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Fighting class shame with drop scones and dead ratsCatherine Hoffmann is a self-confessed survivor of Britain’s ‘feral underclass’ of the 1970s and 80s. As Stench Wench, she is now stripping half naked and scrabbling in squalor to reclaim a voice for her peers
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The milkman who drew Bristol from memoryHe roamed his city’s streets all his life, delivering papers, telegrams and milk – and recorded what he saw in naive but meticulous drawings decades later
video
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It's a home, by the hourHow We Live Now: In Tokyo, commutes are so long, and apartments so small, that some people sleep in internet cafes – which offer showers, meals, clothes and everything you might need for a substitute home
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Bristol school is given Banksy mural – videoChildren return to Bridge Farm primary school after their half-term break to find a Banksy mural on the school wall
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Banksy leaves mural and cheeky note in Bristol school as thanks for tributeArtist shows gratitude to Bridge Farm primary for naming house after him, but tells pupils ‘forgiveness is easier to get than permission’
Newcastle's most buzzing night spot? A cowpat on Town Moor