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Art & design

  • Frank Auerbach in his studio.

    ‘Homecoming’ show for artist Frank Auerbach to be held at Berlin gallery

  • Impossible to contain … firefighters battle the Eaton blaze.

    ‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild

    A century of foolhardy development, including public subsidies for rebuilding in the firebelt, hugely contributed to this tragedy, writes our architecture critic. LA must rethink – and build upwards not outwards
  • In high spirits … Maria, from the series Defying the Myth.‘Defying the Myth’ is a personal photographic project which I have been working on for the last 10 years. It chronicles the untold stories of three families headed by single mothers, who are the prime carers, creating safe and enduring worlds for their progeny living with severe disabilities. Their world is little known nor understood by the general public.

    Maria at the beach on a perfect summer day: Carol Allen-Storey’s best photograph

    ‘At times I would be in tears seeing what these families have to face. But this was a gorgeous day during a weekend jaunt to the countryside’
  • Beverley Duckworth’s Residue, a mound of old clothes on which tiny green seedlings are growing

    New Contemporaries review – Kafka portals, concrete phalluses and a Muppet Pasolini

  • Yannick and Ben Jakober with their collection of children's portraits, the Nins, at the Museum Sa Bassa Blanca, Mallorca.

    ‘Life is short, art is long’: the couple who poured their grief into collecting child portraits

  • L Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France 2022

    Seeing stars: meet the amateur astronomers – in pictures

  • Gremista Layered elevs

    Richard Gibson obituary

Reviews

  • Sadlers Wells East

    Architecture
    Sadler’s Wells East review – all the right moves

  • In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World at the Fitzrovia Chapel, London.

    Art
    In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

  • An illustration from The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, whow as considered to be the first female professional writer. It shows women reading and working at a desk and outdoors, building a wall

    Exhibitions
    Medieval Women: In Their Own Words review – a bracing cold shower with Joan of Arc and co

  • headshot of fern the dinosaur with the natural history museum in the background

    Architecture
    Architecture: Rowan Moore’s five best projects of 2024

Photography

  • A lone Trump supporter wrapped in an American flag stands before barricades at Trump's inauguration in 2016

    Trumpland: carnival to insurrection – in pictures

  • Weinstein Irma and Alexis 300dpi Alexis and Irma, San Mateo, CA 2017

    ‘I had to transcend my fear’: LGBTQ+ lives – in pictures

    Sandra Chen Weinstein’s new photo book gives visibility to queer communities – and the intimate relationship she shares with her trans child Lee
  • Girl sleeping, Brazzaville, REPUBLIC OF CONGO, 2002 by Henry Roy.

    The big picture: Henry Roy’s sleeping girl in Congo-Brazzaville

    The Franco-Haitian artist’s 2002 portrait exemplifies his gift for taking photographs that transcend time and place

Architecture

  • White building with five pillars with two cars parked outside from the era

    Politically historic Kingsley Hall in Bristol awarded £4.7m for renovation

  • Caretaker Abdul Nabi Al Afi dwarfed by the Roman Baalbek megalith in Lebanon, the second largest cut stone in the world.

    Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth

  • Martha Gill

    Jane Austen’s plates or the woods near her home? I know which I’d rather save

    Martha Gill
  • Interior View, Centre Hall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Finnieston, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>2RP2TJ8 Interior View, Centre Hall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Finnieston, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Glasgow needs an economy strong enough to sustain its heritage

Visual arts

  • A Highland Landscape by John Knox at Romance to Realities at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.

    A Renaissance pooch, pop art hammers and sublime northern landscapes – the week in art

  • Nicolas Party, Landscape, 2022.

    Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

    Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York
  • A member of the conservation team works on the rhinoceros given to Louis XV for Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum, London.

    A French revolution in science, Japanese art remixed and Everest re-ascended – the week in art

    A blockbuster show of Versailles’ experiments, Takashi Murakami’s cheeky spin on classic paintings and Mallory and Irvine remembered – all in your weekly dispatch
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