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Art & design

  • A mother holds a young child in her arms as they both look into distorting mirrors at the top of a spiral staircase

    Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award

  • Close-up of two Victorian stamps with heavy franking on them on an envelope, one. a red penny stamp and the other a red-orange fourpenny stamp

    In for a Penny Red … UK’s ‘most valuable’ stamp goes up for sale at £650,000

    Rare, flawed version of Victorian stamp is one of a batch destroyed in the 1860s for being defective
  • Title of photograph: 1.5% — 28/12/2021

    A giant crucifix on an Argentinian beach – Andreas Billman’s best photograph

    ‘Many people are surprised by its size and someone asked if it was a real person. But for anyone from Argentina, it’s just part of the everyday’
  • People explore a digital floral artwork

    Digital flowers and a school in ruins: photos of the day – Wednesday

  • Christopher Villiers and Nancy Carroll

    Actors’ show-stopping art exhibition: ‘We’re used to rejection so nothing was turned down!’

  • Chandelier, After the Storm: Mohammed Sami at Blenheim Palace.

    Mohammed Sami review – phenomenal paintings send depth charges through Churchill’s home

  • Museum horse

    From Shakespeare’s lost plays to the world’s oldest horse: the bumper Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 quiz

Reviews

  • Davyd Burliuk, Carousel, 1921

    Art
    In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

  • Bearing witness to survival and growth … Being a Part of Her Growth, 2002.

    Art and design
    Lonnie Holley review – America’s wreckage made into magical art

  • 1992’s Totally Hair Barbie.

    Art and design
    Barbie: The Exhibition review – the wonder doll’s evolution, from Gehry homes to ‘gay Ken’

  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Art and design
    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

Photography

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival – in pictures

  • A sloping sliver building on a hilltop at sunset

    World Architecture festival 2024 shortlist – in pictures

    The shortlist includes projects from around the world spanning categories such as childcare, energy, transport and science

  • A man sitting on a wall in Tower Hamlets council estate in the 1990s

    From protests to dancing in the street: East London’s Bengali community – in pictures

    Photography: the lives of London’s Bengali community

Architecture

  • People look at a memorial wall next to the Grenfell Tower

    Architects asked to design ‘powerful’ memorial to Grenfell Tower victims

  • Site specific … the screens documenting the builders’ work at madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media.

    My bricklayer’s gone viral! Why construction workers are the new social media stars

  • Roger Walker’s 1973 complex Park Mews in Wellington’s Hataitai district

    ‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings

  • A platform with stone blocks overlooks the ocean and an overcast sky

    Sydney firm scoops top NSW architecture prize for rebuild of North Head viewing platforms

Visual arts

  • 327 questionable art

    Simone Lia: Questionable art – cartoon

  • Gavin Jantjes, Freedom Hunters, 1977.

    Anti-apartheid art, Keith Haring graffiti and new life for fallen trees – the week in art

    A retrospective of South African artist Gavin Jantjes, new works by Zanele Muholi and Charles Lutyens’ insights as an art therapist
  • Sharpening the Saws by Oleksandr Bohomazov, 1927.

    Giants of Ukrainian art, Henry Moore goes to war and Chris Ofili’s myth making – the week in art

    A showcase of modernist greats from Malevich to Delaunay, the Yorkshire sculptor’s Blitz drawings and Ofili’s tapestry returns home to Scotland – all in your weekly dispatch
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