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Art & design

  • Aerial view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new SANAA-designed building, 2022, photo © Iwan Baan

    Art Gallery of NSW’s $344m building extension finally named more than a year after it opened

  • ‘The body knows. And the camera shows’ … Self-Portrait Lying Down, 1975.

    ‘He was a born member of the underground’: how Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde

    He only published one book – and it was hardly noticed. Now his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, the photographer’s favourite subjects recall his genius
  • triptych crab

    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise – photo essay

    For the women who pick and prepare Maryland’s famous crab, the once profitable work is far more uncertain – and the climate crisis has had a damaging impact
  • A memorial and a prophecy … A gas mask on a damaged tree on the road to Kreminna in Ukraine's Luhansk oblast.

    Geoff Dyer: ‘A gas mask on a tree stopped me in my tracks – it shows the air itself can be toxic’

  • Shimmering wonder … Detail of a portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent, 1892

    John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger review – exploring the artist’s work in style

  • And on the flute … a Cycladic figure playing an instrument.

    Femicide surge: the Cycladic figures found in the Aegean show a deep respect for the female body. How did Greece lose this?

  • Sculptor Ane Freed-Kernis posing with a block of stone she's set to carve

    A new start after 60: there was no time to waste – so I gave up my job and started stone carving

Reviews

  • Decolonised Structures, 2022-23 by Yinka Shonibare winston churchill detail

    Yinka Shonibare
    Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States review – gorgeously recognisable, but is that enough?

  • Resurrected to ponder and crtitique … Yinka Shonibare CBE, Decolonised Structures.

    Art and design
    Yinka Shonibare CBE review – where Churchill finds his inner psychedelic dandy

  • A man, blurred, walks towards a massive rectangular black Richard Serra painting with a triangle of white coming down on the left and going up on the right

    Art
    Richard Serra: Six Large Drawings review – planes of black that pull you under

  • Louise Bourgeois’s gigantic bronze spider in front of the main house of Compton Verney.

    Art
    The Taotie; A Spirit Inside; Landscape and Imagination review – three superb shows mark 20 years of Compton Verney

Photography

  • A seven-month-old cheetah in the back of an SUV hisses at a rescuer’s outstretched hand, western Somaliland, 2020

    Exploring why we photograph animals – in pictures

  • A Black boy holding a US flag sits on the lap of an Abraham Lincoln statue.

    The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’

    Chronicler of San Francisco’s now-vanished Fillmore district who studied under Ansel Adams turned his lens on his people
  • Junior members of Kazakhstan’s Cheer Republic team perform in Independence Square, Astana, in front of the Hazrat Sultan mosque.

    Jump for joy! How cheerleading conquered the world, from Lagos to Ho Chi Minh City

    It has gone from the sidelines of American sport to become a competitive global phenomenon that might one day make the Olympics. We meet the international teams bringing the cheer

Architecture

  • An illustration in tones of blue, grey and red, of people connected with Birmingham arranged around some of its landmark buildings

    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

  • A promotional film explaining the concept of Neom's the Line

    End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘forced to scale back’ plans for desert megacity

  • The first cable-stayed cantilever bridge in the UK … George Street Bridge, Newport.

    Nuclear reactor or medieval castle? Brutal Welsh architecture – in pictures

  • Green cab shelter in Wellington Place, St John's Wood

    London cab shelter is last of remaining 13 to be given listed status

Visual arts

  • Horn of plenty … a tapestry fragment from Flanders, c1500.

    Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a broken King Kong statue.

    I value Brummie art, but who else does?

    Stewart Lee
    Only in Birmingham could a statue of King Kong be lost twice. The city’s relationship with its cultural history is complicated
  • Abstract thoughts … Art Talent Show.

    Art Talent Show review – witty interrogation of art students asks the big questions

    Hopefuls for the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague face a probing from their professors in a documentary that looks for answers about art, institutions and ourselves
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