art & design
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Sea of Hull by Spencer TunickThousands of people gathered at dawn in Hull to be painted blue and photographed for installation celebrating city’s relationship with the sea -
Robert Lang: Camden girls of the naughty 00sThe South African-born photographer revisits his younger, wilder self, partying with riotous female friends in London’s Camden Town
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'The story of civil rights is unfinished'Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih explores the issue of race and politics -
Chairman Mao, neo naturists and the occultMerseyside comes alive with art and Antony Gormley laments the ‘termites’ nests’ that are today’s cityscapes. Plus all the week’s other art happenings all in your weekly art dispatch
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11 trippy visions of the future by student architectsFrom Game of Thrones-inspired castle estates to spiralling pink robo-slides, this year’s graduate architecture shows offer a window to escapist fantasy lands
in pictures
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What have they ever done for us? Ancient Rome today – in picturesPhotographer Alfred Seiland has travelled Europe and beyond documenting the remains of Roman culture, from gold mines in Spain to fish ponds in Cyprus
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talking points
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South Kilburn estate review – homes that are streets aheadThanks to the enlightened thinking of Brent council and Alison Brooks Architects, a notorious London estate now has some of the best housing in the neighbourhood
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The glories of the V&A;: six of the museum’s best hidden treasuresThe V&A was this week named museum of the year. One of the institution’s biggest fans lists some of his (lesser-known) favourite things
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reviews
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Georgia O'Keeffe at Tate Modern – one long, strange tripThis blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to Georgia O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous, awkward art compounds the cliches
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A latex requiem for a dying WestminsterJorge Otero-Pailos applied latex to walls in Westminster Hall to lift out centuries of dirt. But he can’t remove the post-Brexit stains of British politics
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'We can feel Hockney's deafness'The artist’s relaxed, humorous portraits, all featuring the same yellow chair, are a superheated pageant of fashion and pattern
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‘There was rice, corned beef, Spam’: a family opens a food package, 1948I feel grateful that people sent food to us when we were in such a dire predicament
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Fouad Elkoury’s Avenue Brazzaville, Djibouti, 1987Exploring the Lebanese photographer’s portrait of a deserted restaurant
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Richard Ansett's best photograph: the baby in Ukraine who unlocked my subconscious‘It’s a reference to the fact that I was adopted. You don’t know if the mother’s arm is coming in – or moving away’
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Aftershocks: Haiti in the wake of the earthquake – in picturesHungarian photographer Bence Bakonyi travelled to Haiti five years after its devastating earthquake, and found a country still living hand-to-mouth
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Fight of the Condor: uncovering South America's shame – in picturesFrom the mid-70s, leftwing political figures were imprisoned, tortured and killed throughout South America as part of a dictators’ pact called Operation Condor. Photographer João Pina has tracked its legacy
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Shine a light: infrared film unveils a hidden world – in picturesBritish documentary photographer Edward Thompson uses infrared film to go beyond the limits of the human eye, and uncover the invisible
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With the Good Life over, how can suburbia regain its place in the sun?It was where the interwar generation aspired to, but suburbs today are a tale of dying high streets and creeping poverty
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Gundam trashes Edmonton: how the city became worthy of being blown upForget New York, let alone Tokyo: the wildly popular Japanese anime show Mobile Suit Gundam has rather bizarrely chosen quiet Edmonton, Alberta as the backdrop for its two-part season finale
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Never mind the concrete: National Trust to show the beauty of CroydonBowie hated it. Peep Show besmirches it. The London suburb may get a bad rap in popular culture, but now there is the chance to see a different side
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Redshank beach house review – in deepest Essex, cork tiles are backThis bijou coastal retreat on stilts owes a debt to wartime sea forts
the big picture
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Uncovering South America's shameFrom the mid-70s, leftwing political figures were imprisoned, tortured and killed throughout South America as part of a dictators’ pact called Operation Condor. Photographer João Pina has tracked its legacy
you may have missed
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V&A wins museum of the year awardExhibitions including Alexander McQueen retrospective helped London venue clinch UK’s largest arts prize, judges say
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Ekow Eshun on the subversive power of the black dandyA new photography exhibition challenges the racist stereotypes of black men as hoodie-wearing criminals. The curator explains how his own experiences growing up informed the works he chose
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Why Liverpool's striking schoolkids are backThirty years ago, 10,000 children walked out of class to protest against Thatcher. As the march is restaged at Liverpool Biennial, we meet its original teen rebels
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Into Orbit: my dizzying drop down the world's biggest slideCarsten Höller has turned Anish Kapoor’s ‘zombie pylon’ into a 178m corkscrew thrill-ride – our architecture critic pulls on his helmet and takes the plunge
video
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Stanley Spencer's art: ‘what is rubbish to some people is not to me’ – videoAs a child, Stanley Spencer was always rummaging in dustbins – a tea pot, jam tin and cabbage stalk seemed to him a holy trinity. In this short film, Spencer’s paintings glorifying the everyday are brought to life in the artist’s own words
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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
The wild world of the naked Neo Naturists