Art and design, photography and architecture
Art & design
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Photographer Warren Kirk describes his new book Suburbia as part-social history, part-archaeology, part-storytelling
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A trained architect and pilot, the Polish photographer Kacper Kowalski frames the landscape in terms of human impact and formal patterns within nature, from views of autumn forests and spring fields in bloom, to the alien abstraction of industrial landscapes
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New images by Emma Stibbon of locations used by Turner and Ruskin highlight the toll taken on Alpine landscape
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New steel band version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah will be one of his eight picks
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Yakutsk, in eastern Siberia, is one of the world’s coldest cities, captured during winter by local photographer Alex Vasyliey
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before the opening session of the House of Representatives, New Year celebrations from around the world, migrants climbing the border fence in Tijuana and the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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This week in our regular series of exclusive Guardian print sales is a group of school boys at a meeting to discuss grant aided schools in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, by Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe
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Locals furious over decision to close the pier for two months, a year after it won the Stirling prize
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Designed by Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer, Lebanon’s international expo site has been abandoned since civil war broke out in the 1970s
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Steve Tompkins tops list for projects such as Battersea Arts Centre and Bristol Old Vic
Visual arts
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For a world in shock, WW1 prompted a unique outpouring of creative expression. Our panel of experts pick their favourites
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Letters from Philippa Clark and Ian Bullock
Political, forensic, hi-tech: how 'research architecture' is redefining art