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Art & design

  • Rebecca Horn, installation artist

    Rebecca Horn obituary

  • Ken Done showing a young girl a picture at a table, surrounded by artwork

    10 children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded – in pictures

    Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and more created their own companion pieces to kids’ works celebrating sharks and rays – and they’re on display at the Australian Museum now
  • A large painting in black and white, featuring a rhizomatic patterning, hangs on a white gallery wall, with a person walking in front of it.

    ‘Impossible task’: NGV to take largest international exhibition of Indigenous art to US

    The show, which will tour for three years across North America beginning in 2025, will feature the gallery’s ‘absolute masterpieces’ – including works by Emily Kam Kngwarray and Albert Namatjira
  • Obsession … Simon Snashall in the lead role in The Truth About Harry Beck.

    The Truth About Harry Beck review – the tortuous journey behind the tube map

  • ‘These were once crazy, speedy machines’ … a sliced-up V10 engine from an Audi RS 6 in Bircken’s Gebrochenes Pferd show.

    Wombs to vrooms: the artist who makes work out of old Audi parts – and her own placenta

  • Future Ours installation shot

    ‘Art changes people and people change the world’: the artists targeting UN’s general assembly

  • Joe Lycett.

    Comedian turned artist Joe Lycett: ‘If it’s too earnest a painting, it’s a failure’

Reviews

  • Echoes of an Aztec masterpiece … Margolles poses in front of Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in An Instant).

    Fourth plinth
    Teresa Margolles’s fourth plinth review – haunting rack of faces memorialises transgender victims of violence

  • Michael Craig-Martin, Common History: Conference, 1999

    Art and design
    Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

  • People view, (left-right) Sunflowers,1888, La Berceuse (The Lullaby), 1889 and Sunflowers, 1889 on display during the preview for the National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition at the National Gallery, London.

    Vincent van Gogh
    Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – eye-aching, heartbreaking and unmissable

  • Andy Warhol holding Marilyn at the Factory, New York.

    Art and design
    WarholMania review – lifting the lid on the ultimate self-promoter

Photography

  • A man standing by the sea, holding large sticks over his shoulders

    No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island – in pictures

  • Spell, 2024, by John Stezaker.

    ‘Violence and sacrifice are involved’: master collagist John Stezaker on his creepy creations

    He splices together old images and electrifies them into disturbing new life. The artist invites us to his studio to discuss drag shows, depression and David Hockney
  • From bodypopping to photography … Surrender by Benji Reid.

    ‘I placed the goldfish bowl over my head and hit the self-timer’: Benji Reid’s best photograph

    ‘Using rocks from my garden, I built myself a plinth, scattered flour over the floor and turned the place into a desolate hinterland, like the surface of the moon. The result felt like a direct reflection of my emotions’

Architecture

  • A lithograph of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851.

    Crystal Palace’s radical gardeners

  • Exterior of Arlington House

    Tracey Emin among hundreds opposing changes to Margate ‘brutalist masterpiece’

  • A medium-rise apartment complex

    Fifteen architecture firms shortlisted for NSW competition aimed at alleviating housing crisis

  • The opening by Queen Victoria of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London, in 1851.

    Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days

Visual arts

  • From left: Leonid Marushchak, Yevhen Sternichuk and Marharita Kravchenko.

    Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  • Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection.

    Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

    After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could
  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Five of the best novels about art

    Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
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