art & design
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The art of appropriationBy reusing images made by others, photographers can create unsettling new moods – and give back power to women -
Grayson Perry to depict 'Brexit tribes' on rival leave and remain vasesLeave pot features defiant Farage fan, soldier and expectant mother, while more pessimistic remainers appear on smaller vase
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The mesmerising living sculpture Mari KatayamaShe had her legs amputated at the age of nine – now she uses her body in dazzling artworks -
A new app, Smartify, allows you to point your phone at artworks and instantly know everything about them. But while facts can enrich enjoyment, it is the shock of the unknown that really makes art resonatePut away the gallery guides – art is best when shrouded in mystery
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Your art on the theme of qualityWe asked you to share your art on the theme of quality. National Maritime Museum curator Quintin Colville has selected his favourites
news
in pictures
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Refugees build a life in Uganda – in picturesGetty Images photographer Dan Kitwood travelled to Uganda to document the plight of refugees from South Sudan. The UN World Food Programme delivers aid to thousands crossing the border each day, and with a famine declared those numbers are expected to increase
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talking points
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R is for radical: share your artwork nowFor this month’s art project, Tate Modern photography curator Shoair Mavlian invites you to share your artwork on the theme of radical
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Gender resistance, Italian merchants and Mumbai – the week in artThe National Portrait Gallery in London opens its exhibition setting the work of French surrealist Claude Cahun against English conceptualist Gillian Wearing – plus more in your weekly art dispatch
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reviews
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A World View: John Latham; Speak review – a time-bending experienceFrom proto-psychedelic film to book chewing, the hardcore conceptual art of John Latham continues to inspire
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The cat in the coffin almost steals the showLandscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
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Fears, fantasies and upheaval in the home of the braveRoyal Academy, London
Dance marathons, dustbowl farms, brawling sailors, impoverished cotton-pickers … Adrian Searle takes a journey through 1930s America in a gripping show
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Jasper Havoc in a London skip‘He wasn’t always in drag but he was in permanent diva mode, louche and funny’
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The 20 photographs of the weekThe ongoing battle for Mosul, the eviction of the protesters at the Oceti Sakowin camp, Donald Trump aboard Marine One and Milan fashion week – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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The 90s punks of BelfastRicky Adam documented the grassroots punk scene of the Warzone collective in late 90s Belfast – complete with spiked hair, impromptu naps and confused kids
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The director of Grease by his pool‘Randal Kleiser kept farm animals at his LA ranch house but treated them as pets’
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A boy with a gun at Michael X's HQ‘He was only 10 but I was scared. He handled the gun with a sense of purpose’
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Pritzker prize for architecture won by little known Catalan trioThe most prestigious award in architecture goes to three-person Spanish company who avoid the international limelight and ‘flee from fashions’
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Francis Kéré becomes first African architect of Serpentine pavilionThe architect is planning to bring one of his characteristically stripped-back structures, honed in the villages of his native Burkina Faso, to leafy west London
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'Forest cities': the radical plan to save China from air pollutionStefano Boeri, the architect famous for his plant-covered skyscrapers, has designs to create entire new green settlements in a nation plagued by dirty air
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Giggs and Neville skyscrapers 'threaten Manchester's heritage'Government heritage agency says £200m scheme, which includes 153 apartments, would erase city centre’s history
the big picture
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The strange fairytales of Mari Katayama – in picturesBorn with a rare condition, the artist has chronicled her life in portraits – capturing everything from her tattooed prosthetics to the tentacled creature she stitched together on the shores of Naoshima
video
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Inside Banksy's Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem – videoBritish street artist Banksy unveils his new Walled Off hotel on Friday. The 10-room establishment is situated next to the barrier wall at Bethlehem
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Standing Rock protesters are warning us to save what we canSaudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater joins protesters at Standing Rock to celebrate their victory
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The artist’s hidden tribute to a sold-off LondonThe street artist Stik set out to ask the denizens of Old Shoreditch how his new mural should reflect their gentrified neighbourhood
you may have missed
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Factum Arte: the art copyists giving the Renaissance a renaissanceWith their immaculate replicas of everything from Tutankhamun’s tomb to Italian architecture, this Madrid company is bringing ancient civilisations to life
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Iran gets a blast of shocking colourHow will British ‘colour activist’ David Batchelor go down in a country where vibrant hues are all but banned? Will his lavatorial light land him in trouble?
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Olafur Eliasson’s cultural highlightsThe artist on his admiration for documentary maker Adam Curtis, Ethiopian jazz poetry and the meditative power of archery
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The forgotten artist who captured Scotland's life and soulChildren from the slums, bleak seascapes, village fishermen at work … the vibrant visions of Joan Eardley are finding a new following
Review A World View: John Latham – trying to make sense of an oddball visionary